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Deceit

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(1):

(n.) An attempt or disposition to deceive or lead into error; any declaration, artifice, or practice, which misleads another, or causes him to believe what is false; a contrivance to entrap; deception; a wily device; fraud.

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(n.) Any trick, collusion, contrivance, false representation, or underhand practice, used to defraud another. When injury is thereby effected, an action of deceit, as it called, lies for compensation.

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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Deceit'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​d/deceit.html. 1828.
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