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Grammar : Noun
Spell : per-fid-ee-uhs
Phonetic Transcription : pərˈfɪd i əs



Definition of perfidiousness

Origin :
  • 1590s, from Latin perfidiosus "treacherous," from perfidia (see perfidy). Related: Perfidiously; perfidiousness.
  • noun faithlessness
Example sentences :
  • Saith Q. Curtius, Perfidiousness is a crime which no merits can mitigate.
  • Extract from : « A Christian Directory » by Baxter Richard
  • This was by perfidiousness to draw her into a snare to her undoing.
  • Extract from : « A Christian Directory (Part 2 of 4) » by Richard Baxter
  • Again he had a sad proof of the perfidiousness of Europeans.
  • Extract from : « The Life and Labours of the Rev. Samuel Marsden » by Samuel Marsden
  • She once went so far as to say, that it was not superior discernment, which enabled her to suspect the perfidiousness of Walter.
  • Extract from : « The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 » by Jane West
  • Sabine's eyes opened upon new vistas of man's perfidiousness.
  • Extract from : « Cape Breton Tales » by Harry James Smith
  • They must have been the last flickerings of a conscience not quite dead to all sense of perfidiousness and fickleness.
  • Extract from : « Desperate Remedies » by Thomas Hardy
  • Wherein our men are guilty of the most horrid cowardice and perfidiousness, as he says and tells it, that ever Englishmen were.
  • Extract from : « Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete » by Samuel Pepys
  • I had not been married eight months when you suspected me of every perfidiousness, and you even told me so.
  • Extract from : « Original Short Stories, Volume 6 (of 13) » by Guy de Maupassant
  • Abhor covetousness and ambition; or else a bribe or the promise of preferment, will tempt you to perfidiousness.
  • Extract from : « A Christian Directory (Part 4 of 4) » by Richard Baxter
  • And it must be practice first, that must make words credible, when the person by perfidiousness hath forfeited his credit.
  • Extract from : « A Christian Directory (Part 4 of 4) » by Richard Baxter

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