† faiteryn.
Obsolete.
Fraud, deception, hypocrisy.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > [noun]
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to give the go-around1925
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the twist1933
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > [noun]
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humbuggism1842
quackhood1843
quacksalverism1864
razzle-dazzle1928
spivery1948
shuck1958
shucking and jiving1969
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xi. 90 And wher-of serueth lawe..if no lyf vndertoke it, Falsenesse ne faytrye.
c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) ii. liii. 96 Not that j sey thee thus for to putte thee in to faitourye [mistransl. Fr. festardye ‘indolence’].
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 147 Fayterye, fictio.
1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes i, in Wks. 40/1 I let passe ouer the faitry and falshed that is therin vsed.
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxxiv. xxiii. 867 He [Philip of Macedon] charged the Romanes with fraud and faiterie.
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