Both Uses of
duplicity
in
Riders of the Purple Sage
- The women who owed much to Jane Withersteen changed not in love for her, nor in devotion to their household work, but they poisoned both by a thousand acts of stealth and cunning and duplicity.†
Chpt 12duplicity = deception -- such as lying
- Fay looked thoughtful and appeared to be debating the duplicity of men or searching for a supreme test to prove this cavalier.
Chpt 19 *duplicity = deception
Definition:
deception (lying to or misleading others) -- usually over an extended period