Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Perfidiousness; treachery.
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Examples
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Of her treachery and false-heartedness in doing what she had done in the way she had done it, he had no time to take account.
Marcia Schuyler Grace Livingston Hill Lutz
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"Not Sir Oliver Tressilian, came the answer, but Sakr-el-Bahr, the scourge of the sea, the terror of Christendom, the desperate corsair your lies, cupidity, and false-heartedness have fashioned out of a sometime Cornish gentleman."
The Sea-Hawk Rafael Sabatini 1912
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So dominated by insincerity and false-heartedness is he that he is compelled to be a pretender whether he will or not.
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Regardless of the difficulties which often cause the minister to be burdened, emanating from the pastoral work, the attendance of many kinds of meetings, the worldly-mindedness of believers, the false-heartedness of brethren, the care of loved ones, besides his studies, yet none of these things moved him.
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A cold chill came over him, and the image of pretty Ino rose up before him -- Ino, who had trusted in his love; and to whom, of all others, he had given cause to accuse him of false-heartedness.
A Thorny Path — Complete Georg Ebers 1867
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A cold chill came over him, and the image of pretty Ino rose up before him -- Ino, who had trusted in his love; and to whom, of all others, he had given cause to accuse him of false-heartedness.
Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867
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My soul was stirred in me, and maddened to desperation, to think that we had placed our lives in such imminent peril, through the persuasions of such false-heartedness, and now told to go back home to our masters!
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He charges him with wickedness and false-heartedness, and this article of his charge was utterly groundless and unjust.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721
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