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Treachery definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

TREACHERY, n. trech'ery. Violation of allegiance or of faith and confidence. The man who betrays his country in any manner, violates his allegiance, and is guilty of treachery. This is treason. The man who violates his faith pledged to his friend, or betrays a trust in which a promise of fidelity is implied, is guilty of treachery. The disclosure of a secret committed to one in confidence, is treachery. This is perfidy.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: betrayal of a trust [syn: perfidy, perfidiousness, treachery]
2: an act of deliberate betrayal [syn: treachery, betrayal, treason, perfidy]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural -eries) Etymology: Middle English trecherie, from Anglo-French, from trecher, tricher to deceive, from Vulgar Latin *triccare — more at trick Date: 13th century 1. violation of allegiance or of faith and confidence ; treason 2. an act of perfidy or treason

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (pl. -ies) 1 violation of faith or trust; betrayal. 2 an instance of this.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Treachery Treach"er*y, n. [OE. trecher["i]e, trichere, OF. trecherie, tricherie, F. tricherie trickery, from tricher to cheat, to trick, OF. trichier, trechier; probably of Teutonic origin. See Trickery, Trick.] Violation of allegiance or of faith and confidence; treasonable or perfidious conduct; perfidy; treason.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(treacheries) Treachery is behaviour or an action in which someone betrays their country or betrays a person who trusts them. N-UNCOUNT: also N in pl

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Perfidiousness, perfidy, faithlessness, double-dealing, foul play, infidelity, betrayal, treason, disloyalty, breach of faith, Punic faith, insidiousness, deceitfulness.

Moby Thesaurus

Machiavellianism, ambidexterity, artifice, bad faith, cunning, danger, deceitfulness, desultoriness, dirty pool, dirty trick, dirty work, dishonesty, disloyalty, double cross, double-dealing, doubleness, doubleness of heart, duplicity, faithlessness, falseheartedness, falseness, foul play, hazard, improbity, infirmity, insecurity, insolidity, instability, insubstantiality, low cunning, perfidiousness, perfidy, peril, perilousness, precariousness, risk, riskiness, sellout, shakiness, shiftiness, shiftingness, slipperiness, speculativeness, ticklishness, treacherousness, treason, two-facedness, unauthenticity, unauthoritativeness, undependability, unfaithworthiness, unreliability, unsolidity, unsoundness, unsteadfastness, unsteadiness, unsubstantiality, unsureness, untrustworthiness, wile