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Webster 1913 Edition
Perfidiousness
Per-fid′i-ous-ness
,Noun.
The quality of being perfidious; perfidy.
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Webster 1828 Edition
Perfidiousness
PERFID'IOUSNESS
,Noun.
Definition 2024
perfidiousness
perfidiousness
English
Noun
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.
- 1781, Samuel Johnson, "Addison" in Lives of the Poets:
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References
- “perfidiousness” in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.
- perfidiousness in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- “perfidiousness” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.