perfidiousness
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]perfidious + -ness
Noun
[edit]perfidiousness (usually uncountable, plural perfidiousnesses)
- (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
[edit]References
[edit]- perfidiousness in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.
- “perfidiousness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “perfidiousness”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.