Word of the Day for Wednesday 26th March 2014
Guile\ gahyl \,
noun;
1. Insidious cunning in attaining a goal; crafty or artful deception; duplicity.
Quotes:
The infernal Serpent; he it was whose guile, / Stirred up with envy and revenge, deceived / The mother of mankind…
-- John Milton, Paradise Lost , 1667
Untrained human nature was not frank and innocent; it was full of the
twists and defences of an instinctive guile .
-- Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence , 1920
Origin:
Though the origins of guile are unknown, it is thought to have come to
Middle English from a Germanic source, by way of Old French.
Thanks to: www.dictionary.com
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