All 6 Uses of
forgery
in
1984 by Orwell
- Even the written instructions which Winston received, and which he invariably got rid of as soon as he had dealt with them, never stated or implied that an act of forgery was to be committed: always the reference was to slips, errors, misprints, or misquotations which it was necessary to put right in the interests of accuracy.
p. 40..8forgery = making a falsified (fake) copy of a document
- But actually, he thought as he re-adjusted the Ministry of Plenty's figures, it was not even forgery. It was merely the substitution of one piece of nonsense for another.
p. 40..9 *forgery = making falsified copies of documents
- Most of it was a tedious routine, but included in it there were also jobs so difficult and intricate that you could lose yourself in them as in the depths of a mathematical problem — delicate pieces of forgery in which you had nothing to guide you except your knowledge of the principles of Ingsoc and your estimate of what the Party wanted you to say.
p. 43..9forgery = making falsified (fake) copies of documents
- Comrade Ogilvy, who had never existed in the present, now existed in the past, and when once the act of forgery was forgotten, he would exist just as authentically, and upon the same evidence, as Charlemagne or Julius Caesar.
p. 47..9
- Sometimes he talked to her of the Records Department and the impudent forgeries that he committed there.
p. 154..6forgeries = making of falsified (fake) copies of documents
- He was as anxious as anyone else in the Department that the forgery should be perfect.
p. 183..4forgery = falsified (fake) copy of a document
Definition:
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(forgery) something that is represented as real even though it is a fake; or the making of such a fake item