falsehood

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Campbell: "It seems to me that my falsehood is another proof of my affection."

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  1. noun An untrue statement; a lie.
  2. noun The practice of lying.
  3. noun Lack of conformity to truth or fact; inaccuracy.

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  • To say that the disciples invented the story of Jesus and then martyred themselves for their falsehood is as intellectually stupid and silly as it is morally monstrous! —  The Battle of Principles A Study of the Heroism and Eloquence of the Anti-Slavery Conflict
  • Campbell: "It seems to me that my falsehood is another proof of my affection." —  Five O'Clock Tea Farce
  • "This falsehood is the latest salvo in the Robin Vos 'War on Reality.'"
  • I have loved you too well to leave you in a belief that the change you observe in me is an effect of lightness; I must inform you that your falsehood is the cause of it; you will be surprised to hear me speak of your falsehood; you have dissembled it with so much skill, and I have taken so much care to conceal my knowledge of it from you, that you have reason to be surprised at the discovery; I am myself in wonder, that I have discovered nothing of it to you before; never was grief equal to mine; I thought you had the most violent passion for me, I did not conceal that which I had for you, and at the time that I acknowledged it to you without reserve, I found that you deceived me, that you loved another, and that in all probability I was made a sacrifice to this new mistress. —  The Princess of Cleves
  • For England she left herself on record as an arrant liar, false, perjured, yet successful; and because of her success for England's sake her countrymen will hold her in high remembrance, since her scheming and her falsehood are the offenses that one pardons most readily in a woman. —  Famous Affinities of History — Volume 1
 

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  1. from Middle English falshod, also falshed, -hede (= OFries. falskhede, falschhede = Dutch valschheid = Middle High German valschheit, German falschheit = Danish falskhed = Swedish falskhet), falseness; from false + -hood.
 

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/ˈfɔlshəd/
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