English-Thai Dictionary

perfidy

N การ ทรยศ  การโกง  การ ทุจริต  unfaithfulness falseness treasury fidelity faithfulness kan-to-ra-yod

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PERFIDY

n.[L. perfidia; per and fides, faith. ] The act of violating faith, a promise, vow or allegiance; treachery; the violation of a trust reposed. Perfidy is not applied to violations of contracts in ordinary pecuniary transactions, but to violations of faith or trust in friendship, in agency and office, in allegiance, in connubial engagements, and in the transactions of kings.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

PERFIDY

Per "fi *dy, n.; pl. Perfidies. Etym: [L. perfidia, fr. L. perfidus faithless; per (cf. Skr. para away ) + fides faith: cf. F. perfidie. See Faith. ]

 

Defn: The act of violating faith or allegiance; violation of a promise or vow, or of trust reposed; faithlessness; teachery. The ambition and perfidy of tyrants. Macaulay. His perfidy to this sacred engagement. DeQuincey.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

perfidy

per fi dy |ˈpərfidē ˈpərfədi | ▶noun literary deceitfulness; untrustworthiness. ORIGIN late 16th cent.: via French from Latin perfidia, from perfidus ‘treacherous, ’ based on per- ‘to ill effect ’ + fides ‘faith. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

perfidy

perfidy |ˈpəːfɪdi | ▶noun [ mass noun ] literary the state of being deceitful and untrustworthy. ORIGIN late 16th cent.: via French from Latin perfidia, from perfidus ‘treacherous ’, based on per- ‘to ill effect ’ + fides ‘faith ’.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

perfidy

perfidy noun literary the perfidy of her husband: treachery, duplicity, deceit, deceitfulness, disloyalty, infidelity, faithlessness, unfaithfulness, betrayal, treason, double-dealing, untrustworthiness, breach of trust; literary perfidiousness.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

perfidy

perfidy noun the perfidy of her lover: treachery, duplicity, deceit, perfidiousness, deceitfulness, disloyalty, infidelity, faithlessness, unfaithfulness, betrayal, treason, falseness, falsity, double-dealing, dishonesty, two-facedness, untrustworthiness, breach of trust; rare false-heartedness, Punic faith. ANTONYMS faithfulness, loyalty.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

perfidy

per fi dy /pə́ː r fədi /名詞 U ｟文 ｠不誠実 (な行為 ), 裏切り, 背信 (treachery ).