Both Uses
treachery
in
Utopia, by Thomas More
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- None are suffered to put away their wives against their wills, from any great calamity that may have fallen on their persons, for they look on it as the height of cruelty and treachery to abandon either of the married persons when they need most the tender care of their consort, and that chiefly in the case of old age, which, as it carries many diseases along with it, so it is a disease of itself.†
*treachery = betrayal
- for the use as well as the desire of money being extinguished, much anxiety and great occasions of mischief is cut off with it, and who does not see that the frauds, thefts, robberies, quarrels, tumults, contentions, seditions, murders, treacheries, and witchcrafts, which are, indeed, rather punished than restrained by the seventies of law, would all fall off, if money were not any more valued by the world?†
treacheries = acts of betrayal
Definitions:
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(1)
(treachery) the behavior of someone who pretends to be a friend and then tricks, cheats, or betrays
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)