falshood

English

Noun

falshood (plural falshoods)

1. Obsolete spelling of falsehood
   • 1681, Aphra Behn, “The Second Part of The Rover”, in The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. I (of 6)‎^[1]:

     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^[2]:

     We have taken away the motives to concealment and falshood.

   • 1798, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, “[Maria: or, The] Wrongs of Woman”, in W[illiam] Godwin, editor, Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. […], volume I, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […]; and G[eorge,] G[eorge] and J[ohn] 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.