fabrication

Word Origin & History

c.1500, "manufacturing, construction," from Middle French fabrication and directly from Latin fabricationem (nominative fabricatio), noun of action from past participle stem of fabricare (see fabricate). Meaning "lying, falsehood, forgery" is from late 18c.

Example Sentences forfabrication

He was in no way imposed upon by the breadth of the fabrication.

It may be simply a fabrication of this man's excited imagination.

Then, of course, I must believe her the author of the fabrication.

But what was Cromwell's motive in the fabrication of this Insurrection of March, 1655?

It is an idea that symbolizes the tendency of the human intellect to fabrication.

His factory employed a couple of hundred men in the fabrication of hogsheads.

Next day St. Elgiva's was given up to the fabrication of costumes.

Was his whole story a fabrication, and was there some complicity between the two?

One of the principal industries of Dinan is the fabrication of sail-cloth.

There was no Tartar lesson, there was no Tartar teacher, and it was all a fabrication of my own!'

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