Hypertext Webster Gateway: "duplicity"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Duplicity \Du*plic"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Duplicities}. [F.
duplicit['e], L. duplicitas, fr. duplex double. See
{Duplex}.]
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 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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

duplicity
n 1: a fraudulent or duplicitous representation [syn: {fraudulence}]
2: acting in bad faith; deception by pretending to entertain
one set of intentions while acting under the influence of
another [syn: {double-dealing}]


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