[a. OF. fraudulence, f. fraudulent: see FRAUDULENT and -ENCE.] The quality or fact of being fraudulent.
1610. Healey, St. Augustine, Of the Citie of God, 801. No his binding is an inhibition of his full power of tempration, which is the meanes of mans being seduced, either by his violence or his fraudulence.
a. 1716. South, Serm. (1737), V. viii. 340. Though the Egyptians lost what they had lent them, yet it was without any Fraudulence or Injustice on their Part, who were the Borrowers.
1812. G. Chalmers, Dom. Econ. Gt. Brit., 229. The projects, and arts, by which those notes were pushed into the circle of trade, were regarded, with a very evil eye by those who, in this management, saw great imprudence, in many, and a little fraudulence, in some.
1891. Law Times, XC. 25 April, 464/2. The Customs entry should be held to be sufficient to prove the fraudulence of the trade mark or trade description.
