All 5 Uses
guile
in
The Odyssey, by Homer - (translated by: Butler)
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- His daughter it is that holds the hapless man in sorrow: and ever with soft and guileful tales she is wooing him to forgetfulness of Ithaca.†
Book Pref.guileful = full of cunning (shrewdness and cleverness, and perhaps deceit)
- We were among the first he counted, and he never suspected any guile, but laid himself down to sleep as soon as he had done counting.
Book 4 *guile = cunning (shrewdness and cleverness) and deceit
- They meant no guile, but the wind drove them off their course, and we sailed on till we came hither by night.†
Book 13
- Dare devil that you are, full of guile, unwearying in deceit, can you not drop your tricks and your instinctive falsehood, even now that you are in your own country again?†
Book 13
- So on Mt. Eryx I was shown a man who was always called Sonza Malizia or "Guileless"—he being held exceptionally cunning.†
Book Footguileless = innocent -- without cunning (shrewdness, cleverness) or deceitstandard suffix: The suffix "-less" in guileless means without. This is the same pattern you see in words like fearless, homeless, and endless.
Definitions:
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(1)
(guile) cunning (shrewdness and cleverness) and deceitful
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)