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  • 71traitorous — a. 1. Treacherous, perfidious, faithless, false, recreant. 2. Treasonable, treacherous, seditious, perfidious, insidious …

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  • 72faithless — [fāth′lis] adj. [ME feithles] 1. not keeping faith; dishonest; disloyal 2. unreliable; undependable 3. lacking faith; unbelieving faithlessly adv. faithlessness n. SYN. FAITHLESS implies failure to adhere as to an oath or obligation [a faithless… …

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  • 73perfidiously — adverb in a perfidious manner he was playing perfidiously one side against the other • Derived from adjective: ↑perfidious …

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  • 74perfidiousness — noun betrayal of a trust • Syn: ↑perfidy, ↑treachery • Derivationally related forms: ↑treacherous (for: ↑treachery), ↑perfidious, ↑perfidious ( …

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  • 75A true bill — True True (tr[udd]), a. [Compar. {Truer} (tr[udd] [ e]r); superl. {Truest}.] [OE. trewe, AS. tre[ o]we faithful, true, from tre[ o]w fidelity, faith, troth; akin to OFries. triuwe, adj., treuwa, n., OS. triuwi, adj., trewa, n., D. trouw, adj. & n …

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  • 76A world to see — World World, n. [OE. world, werld, weorld, weoreld, AS. weorold, worold; akin to OS. werold, D. wereld, OHG. weralt, worolt, werolt, werlt, G. welt, Icel. ver[ o]ld, Sw. verld, Dan. verden; properly, the age of man, lifetime, humanity; AS. wer a… …

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  • 77All in the world — World World, n. [OE. world, werld, weorld, weoreld, AS. weorold, worold; akin to OS. werold, D. wereld, OHG. weralt, worolt, werolt, werlt, G. welt, Icel. ver[ o]ld, Sw. verld, Dan. verden; properly, the age of man, lifetime, humanity; AS. wer a… …

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  • 78Annular eclipse — Eclipse E*clipse ([ e]*kl[i^]ps ), n. [F. [ e]clipse, L. eclipsis, fr. Gr. e kleipsis, prop., a forsaking, failing, fr. eklei pein to leave out, forsake; ek out + lei pein to leave. See {Ex }, and {Loan}.] 1. (Astron.) An interception or… …

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  • 79cote — Quote Quote (kw[=o]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Quoted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Quoting}.] [OF. quoter, F. coter to letter, number, to quote, LL. quotare to divide into chapters and verses, fr. L. quotus. See {Quota}.] [Formerly written also {cote}.] 1. To …

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  • 80Cycle of eclipses — Eclipse E*clipse ([ e]*kl[i^]ps ), n. [F. [ e]clipse, L. eclipsis, fr. Gr. e kleipsis, prop., a forsaking, failing, fr. eklei pein to leave out, forsake; ek out + lei pein to leave. See {Ex }, and {Loan}.] 1. (Astron.) An interception or… …

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