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Definition of Perfidious

1. Adjective. Tending to betray; especially having a treacherous character as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans. "Treacherous intrigues"

Definition of Perfidious

1. a. Guilty of perfidy; violating good faith or vows; false to trust or confidence reposed; teacherous; faithless; as, a perfidious friend.

Definition of Perfidious

1. Adjective. Of, pertaining to, or representing perfidy; disloyal to what should command one's fidelity or allegiance. ¹

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Definition of Perfidious

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Perfidious

Literary usage of Perfidious

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Harleian Miscellany: Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1810)
"WICKED PLOTS AND perfidious PRACTICES OF THE SPANIARDS Against the Seventeen Provinces of the Netherlands, before they took up Armt: Being gathered out of ..."

2. English Synonymes, with Copious Illustrations and Explanations, Drawn from by George Crabb (1854)
"and apparitions nre mostly attributable to the illusion* of the senses and the imagination. FAITHLESS, perfidious, TREACHEROUS. Faithless (p. ..."

3. The History of Sicily from the Earliest Times by Edward Augustus Freeman (1894)
"An act of perfidious slaughter like this would be inconceivable among the acts of Gelon; it would be without fellow even among the acts of Dionysios; ..."

4. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... in the charge of his perfidious groom Myrtilus, who contrived that it should break down in the running, that of Pelops tended by his grooms. ..."

5. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"Provoked by such treatment, which they conceived as trifling and perfidious, the Alani had recourse to their own valour for their payment and revenge, ..."

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