Miscegenation vs False - What's the difference?
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(chiefly, US) The mixing or blending of race in marriage or breeding, interracial marriage.
(figuratively) A mixing or blending, especially one which is considered to be inappropriate.
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Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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Spurious, artificial.
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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As a noun miscegenation
is (chiefly|us) the mixing or blending of race in marriage or breeding, interracial marriage.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.miscegenation
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(wikipedia miscegenation)Noun
(-)Usage notes
Often considered offensive, pejorative, or old-fashioned, alternative terms are more common in contemporary use, such as interracial, interethnic or , multiracial, or mixed for persons. In scholarly use, miscegenation is particularly used for historical discussions, and in current use has been repurposed by academics to analyze the emotions, reactions, and anxieties held by people about interracial couplings.Synonyms
* miscegenyDerived terms
* miscegenative / miscegenetic / miscegenic / miscegenistic / miscegenous (adj.) * miscegenationist / miscegenist (adj. and n.) * antimiscegenation (US)See also
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(er)A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society, section=Part 1, publisher=Clarendon Press, location=Oxford, editor= , volume=1, page=217 , passage=Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.}}