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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FALSEHOOD, n. fols'hood. [false and hood.]
1. Contrariety or inconformity to fact or truth; as the falsehood of a report.
2. Want of truth or veracity; a lie; an untrue assertion.
3. Want of honesty; treachery; deceitfulness; perfidy.
But falsehood is properly applied to things only. [See falseness.]
4. Counterfeit; false appearance; imposture.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a false statement [syn: falsehood, falsity, untruth] [ant: true statement, truth]
2: the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting [syn: falsification, falsehood]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 13th century 1. an untrue statement ; lie 2. absence of truth or accuracy 3. the practice of lying ; mendacity

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 the state of being false, esp. untrue. 2 a false or untrue thing. 3 a the act of lying. b a lie or lies.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Falsehood False"hood, n. [False + -hood] 1. Want of truth or accuracy; an untrue assertion or representation; error; misrepresentation; falsity. Though it be a lie in the clock, it is but a falsehood in the hand of the dial when pointing at a wrong hour, if rightly following the direction of the wheel which moveth it. --Fuller. 2. A deliberate intentional assertion of what is known to be untrue; a departure from moral integrity; a lie. 3. Treachery; deceit; perfidy; unfaithfulness. Betrayed by falsehood of his guard. --Shak. 4. A counterfeit; a false appearance; an imposture. For his molten image is falsehood. --Jer. x. 14. No falsehood can endure Touch of celestial temper. --Milton. Syn: Falsity; lie; untruth; fiction; fabrication. See Falsity.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(falsehoods) 1. Falsehood is the quality or fact of being untrue or of being a lie. She called the verdict a victory of truth over falsehood. ? truth 2. A falsehood is a lie. (FORMAL) He accused them of knowingly spreading falsehoods about him. N-COUNT

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

fols'-hood.

See LYING.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Falsity, want of truth, inconformity to fact or truth. 2. Untruth, lie, fabrication, fiction, false assertion, fib. 3. Imposture, counterfeit, cheat.

Moby Thesaurus

blague, canard, cock-and-bull story, credibility gap, deceit, dishonesty, dissimulation, distortion, erroneousness, error, exaggeration, fabrication, fairy tale, fakery, fallaciousness, fallacy, falseness, falsity, farfetched story, farrago, feigning, fib, fibbery, fibbing, fiction, fish story, flam, flimflam, fraud, ghost story, half-truth, inveracity, legal fiction, lie, little white lie, lying, mendaciousness, mendacity, misrepresentation, misstatement, mythomania, pious fiction, pretense, prevarication, pseudology, sham, slight stretching, story, tale, tall story, tall tale, taradiddle, trumped-up story, truthlessness, untrueness, untruth, untruthfulness, unveraciousness, white lie, yarn