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falsehood | yed |

As nouns the difference between falsehood and yed

is that falsehood is (uncountable) the property of being false while yed is (archaic) a saying or yed can be a burrow; a hole made by an animal in the ground or yed can be .

As a verb yed is

(archaic) to speak; sing or yed can be to burrow underground, as a rabbit or mole; also said of miners.

falsehood

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) The property of being false.
  • * 1976 , Willard Van Orman Quine, The Ways of Paradox, and other essays , page 89:
  • Every such idiom is what is known as a truth function, and is characterized by the fact that the truth or falsehood' of the complex statement which it generates is uniquely determined by the truth or ' falsehood of the several statements which it combines.
  • (countable) A false statement, especially an intentional one; a lie
  • Don't tell falsehoods .
  • (archaic, rare) Mendacity, deceitfulness; the trait of a person who is mendacious and deceitful.
  • * 1817 , Robert Stevenson, Scripture Portraits , volume 1, page 155:
  • THE LEPROSY OF NAAMAN INFLICTED ON GEHAZI, FOR HIS FALSEHOOD AND COVETOUSNESS.
  • * 1963 , M. Arthur Macauliffe, The Sikh Religion: its Gurus, Sacred Writings and Authors , page 7:
  • O mortal, eschew falsehood' and flattery. Death flayeth and killeth the false one: The apostate suffereth for his ' falsehood and pride; he is tormented in both worlds. Renounce slander and envy of others.
  • * 1984 , Witness Lee, Life-Study: Revelation: Volume Three: Messages 34-50 , Living Stream Ministry (1999), ISBN 978-0-7363-0659-1, page 511:
  • The false prophet looks like a lamb, but speaks like a dragon. This indicates his falsehood . He will pretend to be the same as Christ.
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  • Quotations

    * Syn. Falsehood'', ''Falseness'', ''Falsity''; untruth, fabrication, fiction. Instances may be quoted in abundance from old authors to show that the first three words are often strictly synonymous; but the modern tendency has been decidedly in favor of separating them, ''falsehood'' standing for the concrete thing, an intentional lie; ''falseness'', for the quality of being guiltily false or treacherous: as, he is justly despised for his ''falseness'' to his oath; and ''falsity'', for the quality of being false without blame: as, the ''falsity'' of reasoning. — the ''Century Dictionary , 1911. * Micah 2:11 (KJV): *: If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie, saying, I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people. * 1909 , John Potts, Secret Lodge System : *: The lodge upheld, sustained and honored this man in his double life, his deceit, his falsehood , his hypocrisy.

    Synonyms

    * (property of being false) falsity * (false statement) lie * (deceitfulness) falseness, mendacity * See also

    Antonyms

    * (false statement) truth, verity

    yed

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Verb

    (yedd)
  • (archaic) To speak; sing.
  • To magnify greatly in narration; exaggerate a tale; fib.
  • To contend; wrangle.
  • Derived terms
    * (l)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) A saying.
  • A falsehood; leasing.
  • Etymology 3

    From (etyl) . More at (l).

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l)

    Verb

    (yedd)
  • To burrow underground, as a rabbit or mole; also said of miners.
  • To be associated with a place or locality. (rfex)
  • Derived terms
    * (l) * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A burrow; a hole made by an animal in the ground.
  • Etymology 4

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * {{quote-magazine
  • , year = 1950 , date = December , first = Lee , last = Hoffman , authorlink = , title = Chaos , magazine = Quandry , url = http://fanac.org/fanzines/Quandry/Quandry5-02.html , volume = , issue = 5 , page = 3 , passage = Fandom is a wonderful thing. We used to live in Florida ten years ago. Across the street lived a lad two years older than yed' who had the most wonderful collection of comic books...all of a stf nature. At the ripe old age of eight ' yed was swept to Georgia and the lad with the comics was never heard from. Since entering fandom we thought much of him and wondered if he were not a slan. This morning we learned that he is a member of NFFF and TFSC. Naturally we got a letter off to him. }}
  • * {{quote-magazine
  • , year = 1952 , date = February , first = Fred J. , last = Robinson , authorlink = , title = Arose By Any Other Name , magazine = Straight Up , url = http://www.gostak.co.uk/FR/SU1.htm , volume = 1 , issue = 1 , page = 1 , passage = All of which sprang (crawled?) from the fertile skull of yed , no doubt it is something in my Radius. }}
  • * {{quote-magazine
  • , year = 1976 , date = November , first = Lee , last = Hoffman , authorlink = , title = Editorial , magazine = Science-Fiction Five-Yearly , url = http://fanac.org/fanzines/SF_Five_Yearly/sffy6-04.html , volume = , issue = 6 , page = 4 , passage = In preparation for this momentous occasion yed has been browsing past issues of this sterling journal, and it has come to our attention that previous articles by yhos have been devoted largely to bemoaning the multitude of technical problems encountered in production -- the difficulties of duplication, the miseries of mimeography. }}

    Anagrams

    * dye, dey