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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 trust
Familiarity information: PERFIDIOUSNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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