- spuriousness
- spu·ri·ous·ness
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spuriousness — index bad faith, false pretense Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
spuriousness — spurious ► ADJECTIVE 1) false or fake. 2) (of a line of reasoning) apparently but not actually valid. DERIVATIVES spuriously adverb spuriousness noun. ORIGIN Latin spurius false … English terms dictionary
Spuriousness — Spurious Spu ri*ous (sp[=u] r[i^]*[u^]s), a. [L. spurius.] 1. Not proceeding from the true source, or from the source pretended; not genuine; counterfeit; false; adulterate. [1913 Webster] 2. Not legitimate; bastard; as, spurious issue. Her… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
spuriousness — noun see spurious … New Collegiate Dictionary
spuriousness — See spuriously. * * * … Universalium
spuriousness — noun The property of being spurious … Wiktionary
spuriousness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Plausible but invalid reasoning: casuistry, fallacy, sophism, sophistry, speciousness. See CORRECT, TRUE … English dictionary for students
spuriousness — spu·ri·ous·ness || spjÊŠrɪənɪs / spjÊŠÉ™r n. falseness, artificiality … English contemporary dictionary
spuriousness — noun state of lacking genuineness • Ant: ↑genuineness • Derivationally related forms: ↑spurious • Hypernyms: ↑falsity, ↑falseness … Useful english dictionary
Richard Bentley — (January 27, 1662 ndash; July 14, 1742) was an English theologian, classical scholar and critic. Early life Bentley was born at Oulton near Leeds, West Yorkshire. His grandfather had suffered for the Royalist cause following the English Civil War … Wikipedia
