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/kˈaʊntərfˌɪtər/ /kˈaʊnərfˌɪtər/ Listen

noun

Counterfeiter n.

One who counterfeits; one who copies or imitates; especially, one who copies or forges bank notes or coin; a forger. "The coin which was corrupted by counterfeiters."

One who assumes a false appearance or semblance; one who makes false pretenses. "Counterfeiters of devotion."

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Etymology of 'Counterfeiter'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Counterfeiter" Quotes from Famous Books

... Earl did not make show to like Meeres, nor admit him to his presence, but it was thought that secretly he meant to have used him for some mischief against me; and, if Essex had prevailed, he had been used as the counterfeiter, for he writes my hand so perfectly that I cannot any way ...

— Raleigh • Edmund Gosse

... innocent in a lawyer to ask the court to do a wicked thing, to urge the court to do it? Then is it equally innocent to ask the Treasurer of a Railroad to forge stock, or an editor to publish lies, or a counterfeiter to make and utter base coin, or an assassin to murder men. Surely it is as innocent to urge men to kidnap blacks ...

— The Trial of Theodore Parker • Theodore Parker

... alliances. He had by this time learned to give and take, to choose the lesser of two evils, to pay the ordained price for his triumphs. Occasionally the forces of evil had to be bribed with a promise of protection. For the surrender of dangerous plates, for example, a counterfeiter might receive immunity, or for the turning of State's evidence a guilty man might have to go scott free. At other times, to squeeze confession out of a crook, a cruelty as refined as that of the Inquisition had to be adopted. In one stubborn ...

— Never-Fail Blake • Arthur Stringer

... of the same year we paused to close the chapters of Jerry McCauley's life, a man who had risen from the depths of crime and sin—a different sort of man from Bishop Simpson. He was born in the home of a counterfeiter. He became a thief, an outlaw. By an influence that many consider obsolete and old-fashioned, he became converted, and was recognised by the best men and women in New York and Brooklyn. I knew McCauley. ...

— T. De Witt Talmage - As I Knew Him • T. De Witt Talmage

... searching for him to put him in jail, and that was the reason he had come back in such a hurry and carried off his poor sick wife. Aunt Izzie cried with mortification, when she heard this. She said she thought it was a disgrace that Katy should have been visiting in a counterfeiter's family. But Dr. Carr only laughed. He told Aunt Izzie that he didn't think that kind of crime was catching, and as for Mrs. Spenser, she was much to be pitied. But Aunt Izzie could not get over her vexation, and every now and then, when she was vexed, she would ...

— What Katy Did • Susan Coolidge