"fraudulence" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈfɹɔː.djʊ.l(ə)ns/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈfɹɔ.d͡ʒə.ləns/ [General-American] Audio: en-au-fraudulence.ogg Forms: fraudulences [plural]
Etymology: From Old French fraudulence, from Latin fraudulentia (“deceitfulness, disposition to defraud; fraudulence”), from fraudulentus (“deceitful, fraudulent”) + -ia (suffix forming abstract nouns). Fraudulentus is derived from fraus (“deceit, fraud”) (from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrew- (“to mislead”)) + -ulentus (“abounding in, full of”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|fro|fraudulence}} Old French fraudulence, {{der|en|la|fraudulentia||deceitfulness, disposition to defraud; fraudulence}} Latin fraudulentia (“deceitfulness, disposition to defraud; fraudulence”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*dʰrew-||to mislead}} Proto-Indo-European *dʰrew- (“to mislead”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} fraudulence (countable and uncountable, plural fraudulences)
  1. The condition of being fraudulent; deceitfulness. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Crime Synonyms: fraudulency Related terms: defraud, defrauder, defrauding [noun], fraud, fraudster, fraudulent, fraudulently Translations (condition of being fraudulent): измамничество (izmamničestvo) (Bulgarian), мошеничество (mošeničestvo) (Bulgarian), fraudulència [feminine] (Catalan), podvodnost [feminine] (Czech), bedrog [neuter] (Dutch), fraude [feminine] (French), fraudulencia [feminine] (Galician), Betrügerei [feminine] (German), sviksemi [feminine] (Icelandic), prettvísi [feminine] (Icelandic), fraudolenza [feminine] (Italian), hoko tāhae (Maori), fraudulência [feminine] (Portuguese), înșelătorie [feminine] (Romanian), fraudulencia [feminine] (Spanish), bedräglighet (Swedish)

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