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Machiavelianism definitions

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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Machiavelism Mach"i*a*vel*ism, Machiavelianism Mach`i*a*vel"ian*ism, n. [Cf. F. machiav['e]lisme; It. machiavellismo.] The supposed principles of Machiavel, or practice in conformity to them; political artifice, intended to favor arbitrary power.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n.; (also machiavelism) Duplicity, chicane, guile, chicanery, trickery, cunning, circumvention, deceit, deception, artifice, dissimulation, double-dealing, hocus-pocus, shifting, quibbling, stratagem, roguery, craft, subtlety, insidiousness.