falsification

Noun

(plural falsifications)

the act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not
knowingly false statement or wilful misrepresentation
showing an item of charge in an account to be wrong

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false +‎ -ification

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Verse 14), which would naturally be silenced by the overwhelming falsification of its comfortable predictions (iv.
In his pamphlet on "Insular Free Trade" the prime minister reviewed the economic history since Cobden's time, pointed to the falsification of the promises of the early free-traders, and to the fact that England was still the only free-importing country, and insisted that he was "in harmony with the true spirit of free-trade" when he pleaded for "freedom to negotiate that freedom of exchange may be increased."
He is indeed free from the grosser faults of deliberate Critical injustice and falsification, and he resists that temptation to invent, to which "the minds of authors are only too method.
The result is not highly favourable to either; neither can be taxed with deliberate falsification, but both have coloured and suppressed.
The most foolish and discreditable was certainly that of Davies; his unworthy attempt to depreciate the great historian's learning, and his captious, cavilling, acrimonious charges of petty inaccuracies and discreditable falsification gave the object of his attack an easy triumph.

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