Both Uses of
perfidy
in
Paradise Lost
- Nathless he so endured, till on the beach
Of that inflamed sea he stood, and called
His legions—Angel Forms, who lay entranced
Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks
In Vallombrosa, where th' Etrurian shades
High over-arched embower; or scattered sedge
Afloat, when with fierce winds Orion armed
Hath vexed the Red-Sea coast, whose waves o'erthrew
Busiris and his Memphian chivalry,
While with perfidious hatred they pursued
The sojourners of Goshen, who beheld
From the safe shore their floating carcases
And broken chariot-wheels.†Book 1perfidious = not trustworthy (prone to intentional betrayal)
- ...and thy hapless crew involved In this perfidious fraud,
Book 5 *
Definition:
an act of deliberate betrayal; or such behavior