1. of, relating to, or being a literary work falsely attributed to an author or written under a false name
Usage: often used in religious and historical scholarship; formal and academic

Examples

• Scholars debate whether certain pseudepigraphic texts were intentionally misattributed or simply mislabeled over time.
• The pseudepigraphic gospels offer insights into early Christian beliefs even though they were not written by the apostles.
• Many pseudepigraphic works from antiquity were preserved in religious libraries.
• The manuscript was identified as pseudepigraphic after handwriting analysis revealed it could not have been written by the claimed author.
• Pseudepigraphic literature was common in the ancient world, where authors sometimes wrote under the names of respected figures to gain credibility.