falsification

falsification
    n 1: any evidence that helps to establish the falsity of
         something [syn: {disproof}, {falsification}, {refutation}]
    2: a willful perversion of facts [syn: {falsification},
       {misrepresentation}]
    3: the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes
       (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting [syn:
       {falsification}, {falsehood}]
    4: the act of determining that something is false [syn:
       {falsification}, {falsifying}, {disproof}, {refutation},
       {refutal}]
    

Falsification \Fal`si*fi*ca"tion\, n. [Cf. F. falsification.]
   1. The act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting;
      the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it
      is not.
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            To counterfeit the living image of king in his
            person exceedeth all falsifications.  --Bacon.
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   2. Willful misstatement or misrepresentation.
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            Extreme necessity . . . forced him upon this bold
            and violent falsification of the doctrine of the
            alliance.                             --Bp.
                                                  Warburton.
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   3. (Equity) The showing an item of charge in an account to be
      wrong. --Story.
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35 Moby Thesaurus words for "falsification":
      abstractionism, coloring, confabulation, deformation, distortion,
      equivocation, exaggeration, expressionism, false coloring,
      false swearing, falsifying, garbling, hyperbole, inaccuracy,
      injustice, litotes, miscoloring, misconstruction, misdrawing,
      mispainting, misquotation, misreport, misrepresentation,
      misstatement, misteaching, nonrealism, overdrawing, overstatement,
      perjury, perversion, prevarication, slanting, straining, twisting,
      understatement