forgery

UK /ˈfɔː.dʒəɹ.ɪ/ US /ˈfɔːɹ.d͡ʒəɹ.ɪ/
noun 4

Definitions

noun

1

The act of forging metal into shape.

the forgery of horseshoes

2

The act of forging, fabricating, or producing falsely; especially the crime of fraudulently making or altering a writing or signature purporting to be made by another, the false making or material alteration of or addition to a written inst

the forgery of a bond

Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability: […] it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.

3

That which is forged, fabricated, falsely devised or counterfeited.

4

An invention, creation.

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