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Forged vs Spuria - What's the difference?

forged | spuria |

As an adjective forged

is fake (as documents).

As a verb forged

is to force forward against opposition.

As a noun spuria is

spurious things; especially, a counterfeit or forged written work or one of doubtful attribution.

forged

English

Adjective

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  • Fake (as documents).
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-01
  • , author=Brian Hayes , title=Father of Fractals , volume=101, issue=1, page=62 , magazine= citation , passage=Toward the end of the war, Benoit was sent off on his own with forged papers; he wound up working as a horse groom at a chalet in the Loire valley. Mandelbrot describes this harrowing youth with great sangfroid.}}
    Forged identification documents were used to enter the building.
  • Fabricated by forging or at a forge, by working hot metal
  • The blacksmith made an expertly forged horseshoe by beating the red hot metal with his hammer.

    Synonyms

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    Verb

    (head)
  • To force forward against opposition.
  • He forged forward against the current, even as it tried to sweep him down river.

    spuria

    English

    Noun

    (en-plural noun)
  • Spurious things; especially, a counterfeit or forged written work or one of doubtful attribution.
  • * 1790 : The Gentleman’s Magazine , volume 67, page 292
  • The la?t will and te?tament of Grunnius'', a Roman pig, publi?hed among Gruter’s ''Spuria , betrays not more evident marks of impo?ition.

    References

    * “ spuria, n. pl.'']” listed in the '' [2nd Ed.; 1989

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