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Definition of Guilefulness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Guilefulness
Literary usage of Guilefulness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Odyssey of Homer by Homer, William Morris (1887)
"Thou hard one, shifty of rede, guile-greedy, nought wouldst thou From thy
guilefulness refrain thee, nay not in thine own land now, And thy words of sly ..."
2. An English Garner: Ingatherings from Our History and Literature by Edward Arber (1895)
"Have I not offered, Evening, and at Prime, My sighs, my Psalms of invocations ?
" What be men's sighs but cauls of guilefulness ? " " They shew, dear Love ..."
3. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"guilefulness, (gile'-ful-nes) ni Secret treachery ; tricking cunning.
GUILELESS, (gile'-Ics) a. Free from deceit ; void of insidiousness ; simply honest. ..."
4. Elizabethan Sonnets by Sidney Lee (1904)
"Have I not offered, Evening, and at Prime, My sighs, my Psalms of invocations ?
" What be men's sighs but cauls of guilefulness ? " " They shew, dear Love ..."
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