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PERFIDIOUSNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does perfidiousness mean? 

PERFIDIOUSNESS (noun)
  The noun PERFIDIOUSNESS has 1 sense:

1. betrayal of a trustplay

  Familiarity information: PERFIDIOUSNESS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PERFIDIOUSNESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Betrayal of a trust

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

perfidiousness; perfidy; treachery

Hypernyms ("perfidiousness" is a kind of...):

disloyalty (the quality of being disloyal)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "perfidiousness"):

insidiousness (the quality of being designed to entrap)

Derivation:

perfidious (tending to betray; especially having a treacherous character as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans)


 Context examples 


He was perfectly astonished with the historical account gave him of our affairs during the last century; protesting it was only a heap of conspiracies, rebellions, murders, massacres, revolutions, banishments, the very worst effects that avarice, faction, hypocrisy, perfidiousness, cruelty, rage, madness, hatred, envy, lust, malice, and ambition, could produce.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)



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