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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.


False"ly (?), adv. In a false
manner; erroneously; not truly; perfidiously or treacherously.

"O falsely, falsely murdered." Shak.


Oppositions of science, falsely so
called.
1 Tim. vi. 20.


Will ye steal, murder . . . and swear falsely
?
Jer. vii. 9.


False"ness, n. The state of being
false; contrariety to the fact; inaccuracy; want of integrity or
uprightness; double dealing; unfaithfulness; treachery; perfidy; as,
the falseness of a report, a drawing, or a singer's notes; the
falseness of a man, or of his word.


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