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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 Godwin, “[Maria: or, The] Wrongs of Woman”, in W Godwin, editor, Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. , volume I, London: J Johnson, ; and G[eorge,] G and J Robinson, , →OCLC, chapter V, page 85: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.