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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Falsely \False"ly\, adv In a false manner; erroneously; not truly; perfidiously or treacherously. ``O falsely, falsely murdered.'' --Shak. Oppositions of science, falsely so called --1 Tim. vi 20. Will ye steal, murder . . . and swear falsely ? --Jer. vii. 9. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: falsely adv 1: in an insincerely false manner; "a seduction on my part would land us with the necessity to rise, bathe and dress, chat falsely about this and that and emerge into the rest of the evening as though nothing had happened" 2: in an incorrect manner; "to credit Lister with the first formulation of the basic principle of stratigraphy would be to bestow credit falsely" [syn: {incorrectly}]
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