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Definitions
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.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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