falshood
English
Noun
falshood (plural falshoods)
- Obsolete spelling of falsehood
- 1681, Aphra Behn, “The Second Part of The Rover”, in The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. I (of 6):
- Is this the effect of all your put on Jealousy, that Mask to hide your own new falshood in?
- 1783, William Godwin, Four Early Pamphlets:
- We have taken away the motives to concealment and falshood.
- 1798, Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman:
- To save myself from these unmerciful corrections, I resorted to falshood, and the untruths which I sturdily maintained, were brought in judgment against me, to support my tyrant's inhuman charge of my natural propensity to vice.
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