Archaic or dialectal verb meaning to make false, to alter dishonestly, or to falsify something.
From false + -en (verb-forming suffix). An older English verb formation, like 'darken' or 'lighten,' creating a verb from an adjective.
This archaic verb shows English's former flexibility—we could turn almost any adjective into a verb by adding -en. We've lost hundreds of these forms, so 'falsen' survives mainly in old texts.
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