pseudodox

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adjective

Not true in opinion or doctrine; false.

OriginAncient Greek ψευδής →
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Meanings

adjectivepseudodox (not comparable)
  1. not comparableNot true in opinion or doctrine; false.
nounpseudodox (plural pseudodoxes)

plural pseudodoxes

  1. A false opinion or doctrine.

    to maintain the atheistical paradox, pseudodox, which judgeth evil good

    a. 1652, Thomas Adams, England's Sickness (sermon)
    1 more example

    how clearly I can refel that paradox , or rather pseudodox , of those , which hold the face to be the index of the mind

    1600 (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Cynthias Reuels, or The Fountayne of Selfe-Loue. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC

Origin

  1. Ancient Greekψευδής“false, lying”
  2. Englishpseudodox

From Ancient Greek ψευδής (pseudḗs, “false, lying”) + δόξα (dóxa, “opinion”).

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