[UN-1 12. Cf. OE. unʓetréowness.] a. Unfaithfulness. b. Absence of trueness or truth; falsity, inexactness.
a. 1200. Moral Ode, 265 (Lamb. MS.). Þa þe untrownesse [v.r. untrewnesse] duden þon þe ho sculden bon holde.
1727. Bailey (vol. II.), Falsness, falshood, untrueness.
1862. F. Hall, Hindu Philos. Syst., 161. This untrueness does not belong to the universe, for the causes of that universe are free from all defect.
1886. Huxley, in Fortn. Rev., Dec., 789. If there be gradations in untrueness.