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   duplicity , n.; pl. duplicities . [F. duplicité, L. duplicitas, fr. duplex double. See Duplex.]
    Doubleness; a twofold state. [Archaic]
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   Do not affect duplicities nor triplicities, nor any certain number of parts in your division of things.
   I. Watts.
   
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   Doubleness of heart or speech; insincerity; a sustained form of deception which consists in entertaining or pretending to entertain one set of feelings, and acting as if influenced by another; bad faith.
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   Far from the duplicity wickedly charged on him, he acted his part with alacrity and resolution.
   Burke.
   
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   (Law) (a) The use of two or more distinct allegations or answers, where one is sufficient. Blackstone. (b) In indictments, the union of two incompatible offenses.
   Wharton.
   Syn. -- Double dealing; dissimulation; deceit; guile; deception; falsehood.
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