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falsen en · VERB

Etymology

From false + -en.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To make false; falsify
   • In fact, just as his master Chaucer did before him, Milburn “falsened” his material in some productive ways. 2014, Peter G. Beidler, The Lives of the Miller's Tale, page 155:
   • That was one thing that I couldn't bear. Much better if he just hated queers. Without even trying to justify it. But he obviously had to, and that falsened his position. 2011, Gabriella West, The Leaving:
   • In a modern time, we are living with a system of classes so intense, a society of such unnatural complication, that the whole action of our mind is hampered and falsened by it. 1997, Donald David Stone, Communications with the Future: Matthew Arnold in Dialogue, page 31:

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