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Webster 1913 Edition
duplicity
du-plic′i-ty
,Noun.
pl.
duplicities
(#)
. 1.
Doubleness; a twofold state.
[Archaic]
Do not affect
duplicities
nor triplicities, nor any certain number of parts in your division of things. I. Watts.
2.
Doubleness of heart or speech; insincerity; a sustained form of deception which consists in entertaining or pretending to entertain one set of feelings, and acting as if influenced by another; bad faith.
Far from the
duplicity
wickedly charged on him, he acted his part with alacrity and resolution. Burke.
Syn. – Double dealing; dissimulation; deceit; guile; deception; falsehood.
Webster 1828 Edition
Duplicity
DUPLICITY
,Noun.
1.
Doubleness; the number two.2.
Doubleness of heart or speech; the act or practice of exhibiting a different or contrary conduct, or uttering different or contrary sentiments, at different times, in relation to the same thing; or the act of dissembling ones real opinions for the purpose of concealing them and misleading persons in the conversation and intercourse of life; double-dealing; dissimulation; deceit.3.
In law, duplicity is the pleading of two or more distinct matters or single pleas.Definition 2024
duplicity
duplicity
English
Noun
duplicity (countable and uncountable, plural duplicities)
Related terms
Translations
intentional deceptiveness
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