pseudography

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English

Etymology

From pseudo- +‎ -graphy.

Pronunciation

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Noun

pseudography (countable and uncountable, plural pseudographies)

  1. (Can we verify(+) this sense?) False writing; forgery.
    • 1864, Publishers' circular and booksellers' record (volume 27, page 471)
      Some of our contemporaries have thought proper to be sceptical on the subject of this publication, and have pretty plainly hinted that there is fraud somewhere, reminding their readers that 'pseudography has been as profitable a vocation as the forging of palimpsests, or the painting of Raphael's pictures not by Raphael.'
  2. Incorrect spelling.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “pseudography”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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