The quality or state of being fraudulent; deception or dishonest intent.
From 'fraudulent' (Latin 'fraudulentus', deceitful) + '-cy' (state or quality). This variant uses the less common '-cy' suffix instead of '-ence'.
'Fraudulency' and 'fraudulence' are near-perfect synonyms, yet only 'fraudulence' made it into modern dictionaries—this happens constantly in English, where one suffix wins out over another for no particular reason.
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