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perfidy

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7 lettersPronunciation /ˈpɜː.fɪ.di/Part of speech nounSorted defipryStarts with PEnds with Y0 clues
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Definitions

  1. an act of deliberate betrayal

Word origin

From Middle French perfidie, from Latin perfidia from perfidus (“faithless, treacherous, false”), from fides (“faith”); related to, for example, English fidelity.

Used in a sentence

  • Stratagems must be carefully distinguished strategy from perfidy, since the former are allowed, whereas the latter is prohibited.
  • Abuse of a protective emblem amounts to perfidy and constitutes a war crime under the customary law of armed conflict.
  • Ruses of war are legitimate so long as they do not involve treachery or perfidy on the part of the belligerent resorting to them.

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