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单词 fedifragous
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fedifragousadj.n.

Forms: 1600s fedifragous, 1600s 1800s foedifragous.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin foedifragus , -ous suffix.
Etymology: < classical Latin foedifragus that breaks treaties, treacherous ( < foedus treaty (see federal adj.) + the root of frangere to break: see fragment n.) + -ous suffix.
Obsolete.
Pledge-breaking, faithless, perfidious. Also as n. with the: promise-breakers as a class.
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the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > treachery or treason > [adjective] > perfidious
trothlessc1175
proditorious?a1475
perfidiousa1538
truthless1567
fedifragous1600
false-hearta1616
fidious1640
society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > undutifulness > unfaithfulness > [adjective] > breaking pledge or agreement
vow-breaking1533
fedifragous1600
1600 Abp. G. Abbot Expos. Prophet Ionah 359 Perfidious, and fedifragous, and barbarous Princes.
1632 J. Vicars tr. Virgil XII Aeneids xii. 384 Jove..whose thunders great Do truces tie, fright the fedifragous.
1651 Animadversions in C. Love Case 53 Such desultory and fedifragous practices.
1859 Dublin Univ. Mag. May 584/2 Remonstrated with him on his ‘fœdifragous’ and atrocious conduct at Drogheda and Wexford.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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