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perfidiousness

English

Etymology

perfidious +? -ness

Noun

perfidiousness (usually uncountable, plural perfidiousnesses)

  1. (rare) Unfaithfulness; deceitfulness; perfidy.
    • 1781, Samuel Johnson, "Addison" in Lives of the Poets:
      Not only Cato is vanquished by Caesar, but the treachery and perfidiousness of Syphax prevail over the honest simplicity and the credulity of Juba.

Related terms

  • perfidious
  • perfidiously

References

  • Webster, Noah (1828) , “perfidiousness”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language
  • perfidiousness in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • “perfidiousness” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

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perfidious

English

Etymology

From Latin perfidi?sus (treacherous), from perfidia.

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /p??f?di.?s/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /p??f?di.?s/

Adjective

perfidious (comparative more perfidious, superlative most perfidious)

  1. Of, pertaining to, or representing perfidy; disloyal to what should command one's fidelity or allegiance. [from late 16th c.]
    • 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 2 scene 2
      TRINCULO (speaking about Caliban): By this light, a most perfidious and drunken / monster: when his god's asleep, he'll rob his bottle.
    • 1851, Oliver Goldsmith, Dr. Goldsmith's History of Rome (ed. William C. Taylor), ch. 26:
      The perfidious Ricimer soon became dissatisfied with Anthe'mius, and raised the standard of revolt.
    • 1905, Andrew Lang, John Knox and the Reformation, ch. 14:
      [S]he knew Huntly for the ambitious traitor he was, a man peculiarly perfidious and self-seeking.
    • 2005 June 21, Robert Hughes, "Art: The Velocipede of Modernism," Time:
      When the Nazis branded Feininger a "degenerate artist" in 1937, he left 54 paintings for safekeeping with a Bauhaus friend named Hermann Klumpp. After the war, and for the rest of Feininger's life, the perfidious Klumpp refused to give them back.

Synonyms

  • (disloyal): disloyal, traitorous, treacherous, unfaithful

Derived terms

  • perfidiously
  • perfidiousness
  • unperfidious

Related terms

  • perfidy

Translations

Further reading

  • Perfidious Albion on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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