Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Falsification

Falsification , noun

[Compare French falsification.]

1.
The act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not.
To counterfeit the living image of king in his person exceedeth all falsifications. — Bacon
2.
Willful misstatement or misrepresentation.
Extreme necessity... forced him upon this bold and violent falsification of the doctrine of the alliance. — Bp. Warburton
3.
(Equity) The showing an item of charge in an account to be wrong. — Story