SPURIOUSNESS • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Spuriousness

... Billouart. He thought Houbigant too bold a critic, and objected some novelties to the Hebraizing friars of the Rue St. Honore. He believed the letters of Ganganelli, with the exception of two or three at most, to be spurious. Their spuriousness has been since placed beyond controversy by the Diatribe Clementine, polished in 1777. Caraccioli, the editor of them, in his Remerciement a l'Auteur de l'Annee Litteraire de la part de l'Editeur des Lettres du Pape Ganganelli, acknowledges ...

— The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints - January, February, March • Alban Butler