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Mục từ này chưa được dịch sang ngôn ngữ của bạn, vì vậy nội dung gốc được hiển thị bên dưới.
apocrypha
This term carries a heavy weight of skepticism, often suggesting a deliberate fabrication or a gradual drift from historical truth. While it originates in religious contexts to describe texts excluded from the official biblical canon, in secular usage it describes legends or anecdotes that are treated as truth despite a lack of evidence.
Grammatically, the word is a collective noun derived from the Greek plural. While it is frequently used as an uncountable mass noun in modern English to describe a body of folklore, it can function as a plural noun referring to specific texts. Because it is a plural form by origin, it does not follow standard English pluralization rules and does not take an additional s to become plural.
Ý nghĩa
Works or statements of doubtful authenticity, especially those not included in the accepted canon of Scripture.
Ví dụ
The scholar spent years studying the biblical apocrypha to understand early Christian thought.
Much of what we believe about the founders is actually historical apocrypha.
Is this story a documented fact or just some corporate apocrypha?
The library contains several rare manuscripts classified as apocrypha.
I suspect that the tale of the ghost in the attic is mere apocrypha.
These texts were excluded from the canon and relegated to the apocrypha.
The legend of the hidden treasure is likely just local apocrypha.
He treats the family legends as gospel, though they are mostly apocrypha.