[UN-1 12. Cf. OE. unʓetréowness.] a. Unfaithfulness. b. Absence of trueness or truth; falsity, inexactness.

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a. 1200.  Moral Ode, 265 (Lamb. MS.). Þa þe untrownesse [v.r. untrewnesse] duden þon þe ho sculden bon holde.

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1727.  Bailey (vol. II.), Falsness, falshood, untrueness.

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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.

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1886.  Huxley, in Fortn. Rev., Dec., 789. If there be gradations in untrueness.

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