Both Uses of
perfidy
in
Jane Eyre
- I had my own reasons for being dismayed at this apparition; too well I remembered the perfidious hints given by Mrs. Reed about my disposition,
p. 73.7 *perfidious = betraying
- It was the strain of a forsaken lady, who, after bewailing the perfidy of her lover, calls pride to her aid; desires her attendant to deck her in her brightest jewels and richest robes, and resolves to meet the false one that night at a ball, and prove to him, by the gaiety of her demeanour, how little his desertion has affected her.†
p. 121.6perfidy = an act of deliberate betrayal; or such behavior