falsify
/ˈfɒlsɪfaɪ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.55 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "to falsify a record or document"
- "The Irish bards use to forge and falsify everything as they list, to please or displease any man."
- "to falsify money"
- "By how much better than my word I am, / By so much shall I falsify men's hope."
- "Hovv much greater confirmation of his faith vvould he have received, had he ſeen our Saviour's prophecy ſtand good in the deſtruction of the temple, and the diſſolution of the Jevviſh œconomy, vvhen Jevvs and Pagans united all their endeavours under Julian the Apoſtate, to baffle and falſify the prediction?"
- "It will allow the account to stand, with liberty to the plaintiff to surcharge and falsify it"
Etymology
From French falsifier, from Late Latin falsificāre (“make false, corrupt, counterfeit, falsify”), from Latin falsificus, from falsus (“false”), corresponding to false + -ify.
Origin
- Source language: French