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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈpɜː.fɪ.di/ [UK], /ˈpɝ.fɪ.di/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-perfidy.wav Forms: perfidies [plural]
Etymology: From Middle French perfidie, from Latin perfidus (“faithless, treacherous, false”), from fides (“faith”); related to, for example, English fidelity. Etymology templates: {{uder|en|frm|perfidie}} Middle French perfidie, {{uder|en|la|perfidus||faithless, treacherous, false}} Latin perfidus (“faithless, treacherous, false”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} perfidy (countable and uncountable, plural perfidies)
  1. A state or act of violating faith or allegiance; violation of a promise or vow, or of trust. Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms: treachery, betrayal Translations (the act of violating faith or allegiance): namərdlik (Azerbaijani), vəfasızlıq (Azerbaijani), xəyanətkarlıq (Azerbaijani), коварство (kovarstvo) [neuter] (Bulgarian), perfídia [feminine] (Catalan), proradnost [feminine] (Czech), zrada [feminine] (Czech), petollisuus (Finnish), kavaluus (Finnish), perfidie [feminine] (French), hitszegés (Hungarian), hűtlenség (Hungarian), álnokság (Hungarian), perfidia [feminine] (Latin), بیوفایی (bi-vafâyi) (Persian), perfidia [feminine] (Polish), perfídia (Portuguese), perfidie [feminine] (Romanian), вероло́мство (verolómstvo) [neuter] (Russian), изме́на (izména) [feminine] (Russian), преда́тельство (predátelʹstvo) [neuter] (Russian), perfidia [feminine] (Spanish), trolöshet (Swedish), svek (Swedish), förräderi (Swedish), perfiditet [common-gender] (Swedish), віроломство (virolomstvo) [neuter] (Ukrainian), зрада (zrada) [feminine] (Ukrainian)
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  2. (international law, in warfare) An illegitimate act of deception, such as using symbols like the Red Cross or white flag in a false claim of surrender to gain proximity to an enemy for purposes of attack. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): International law Translations (in warfare): измяна (izmjana) [feminine] (Bulgarian), предателство (predatelstvo) [neuter] (Bulgarian), sotapetos (Finnish), álnokság (Hungarian), perfídia (Hungarian), вероло́мство (verolómstvo) [neuter] (Russian), förrädiskt förfarande (Swedish), förräderi (Swedish), віроломство (virolomstvo) [neuter] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-perfidy-en-noun-RNgTBctz Categories (other): Terms with Czech translations Disambiguation of Terms with Czech translations: 45 53 2 Disambiguation of 'in warfare': 18 77 4
  3. A state or act of deceit. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-perfidy-en-noun-7D3aVPb-
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: perfidiousness Related terms: perfidious, perfidiously

Inflected forms

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    "Terms with Swedish translations",
    "Terms with Ukrainian translations"
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        "4": "",
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    }
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        "plural"
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    {
      "word": "perfidious"
    },
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      "word": "perfidiously"
    }
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      "glosses": [
        "A state or act of violating faith or allegiance; violation of a promise or vow, or of trust."
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          "promise",
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          "vow"
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          "trust",
          "trust"
        ]
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          "word": "treachery"
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          "word": "betrayal"
        }
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        {
          "ref": "1921, Lassa Oppenheim with Ronald Francis Roxburgh, International law: a treatise, page 229:",
          "text": "Stratagems must be carefully distinguished strategy from perfidy, since the former are allowed, whereas the latter is prohibited.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1993, Leslie C. Green, The contemporary law of armed conflict, page 89:",
          "text": "Abuse of a protective emblem amounts to perfidy and constitutes a war crime under the customary law of armed conflict.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Sidney Axinn, A Moral Military, page 84:",
          "text": "Ruses of war are legitimate so long as they do not involve treachery or perfidy on the part of the belligerent resorting to them.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012 June 5, Patrick Lin, Neil Rowe, Fritz Allhoff, “Is It Possible to Wage a Just Cyberwar?”, in The Atlantic:",
          "text": "Cyberattacks almost inevitably involve an element of deception, such as tricking a user to click on a malicious link. So, to what extent could cyberattacks count as perfidy and therefore be illegal given international humanitarian law?",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An illegitimate act of deception, such as using symbols like the Red Cross or white flag in a false claim of surrender to gain proximity to an enemy for purposes of attack."
      ],
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        [
          "international law",
          "international law"
        ],
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          "warfare",
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        ],
        [
          "Red Cross",
          "Red Cross"
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          "white flag",
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        "(international law, in warfare) An illegitimate act of deception, such as using symbols like the Red Cross or white flag in a false claim of surrender to gain proximity to an enemy for purposes of attack."
      ],
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        "in warfare"
      ],
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        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
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        {
          "ref": "1962, Barbara Wertheim Tuchman, The Guns of August, page 154:",
          "text": "Germans could not get over the perfidy of it. It was unbelievable that the English, having degenerated to the stage where suffragettes heckled the Prime Minister and defied the police, were going to fight.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000 July 17, “Honda becomes chain letter victim”, in eWeek:",
          "text": "Honda Motor Co. is the latest victim of e-mail perfidy, which started when a phony chain letter promised that the automaker would give away free cars.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008 October 16, “McCain expected to make amends on Letterman show”, in Los Angeles Times:",
          "text": "Letterman roared about the perfidy of lying politicos.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A state or act of deceit."
      ],
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        [
          "deceit",
          "deceit"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
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      ]
    }
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      "ipa": "/ˈpɜː.fɪ.di/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
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      "ipa": "/ˈpɝ.fɪ.di/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "word": "perfidiousness"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "the act of violating faith or allegiance",
      "word": "namərdlik"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "the act of violating faith or allegiance",
      "word": "vəfasızlıq"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "the act of violating faith or allegiance",
      "word": "xəyanətkarlıq"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "kovarstvo",
      "sense": "the act of violating faith or allegiance",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "коварство"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "the act of violating faith or allegiance",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "perfídia"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "the act of violating faith or allegiance",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "proradnost"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "the act of violating faith or allegiance",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "zrada"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "the act of violating faith or allegiance",
      "word": "petollisuus"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "the act of violating faith or allegiance",
      "word": "kavaluus"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "the act of violating faith or allegiance",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "perfidie"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "the act of violating faith or allegiance",
      "word": "hitszegés"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "the act of violating faith or allegiance",
      "word": "hűtlenség"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "the act of violating faith or allegiance",
      "word": "álnokság"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "the act of violating faith or allegiance",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "perfidia"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "bi-vafâyi",
      "sense": "the act of violating faith or allegiance",
      "word": "بیوفایی"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "the act of violating faith or allegiance",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "perfidia"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "the act of violating faith or allegiance",
      "word": "perfídia"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "the act of violating faith or allegiance",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "perfidie"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "verolómstvo",
      "sense": "the act of violating faith or allegiance",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "вероло́мство"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "izména",
      "sense": "the act of violating faith or allegiance",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "изме́на"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "predátelʹstvo",
      "sense": "the act of violating faith or allegiance",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "преда́тельство"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "the act of violating faith or allegiance",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "perfidia"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "the act of violating faith or allegiance",
      "word": "trolöshet"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "the act of violating faith or allegiance",
      "word": "svek"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "the act of violating faith or allegiance",
      "word": "förräderi"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "the act of violating faith or allegiance",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "perfiditet"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "virolomstvo",
      "sense": "the act of violating faith or allegiance",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "віроломство"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "zrada",
      "sense": "the act of violating faith or allegiance",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "зрада"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "izmjana",
      "sense": "in warfare",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "измяна"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "predatelstvo",
      "sense": "in warfare",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "предателство"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "in warfare",
      "word": "sotapetos"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "in warfare",
      "word": "álnokság"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "in warfare",
      "word": "perfídia"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "verolómstvo",
      "sense": "in warfare",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "вероло́мство"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "in warfare",
      "word": "förrädiskt förfarande"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "in warfare",
      "word": "förräderi"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "virolomstvo",
      "sense": "in warfare",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "віроломство"
    }
  ],
  "word": "perfidy"
}

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