doubleness
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The state of being double or doubled.
1540, Great Bible, 1 Chronicles 12 [verse 33], And of Zabulon that went out to the battayle and proceded forth to the war, with all maner of instrumentes of war fyftie M. that were prepared to the war, without any doublenesse of herte.
If you think well to carry this as you may, the doubleness of the benefit defends the deceit from reproof.
Behaviour intended to deceive people.
But if it be a vice to coulour craftinesse, subtile practises, doublenesse and hollow behauiour, with a cloke of pollicie, amitie and wisedome, then are Comineus and his companie to be reputed vicious.
It is clear to you, I hope, that Stephen was not a hypocrite—capable of deliberate doubleness for a selfish end; […]
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31540, Great Bible, 1 Chronicles 12 [verse 33], And of Zabulon that went out to the battayle and proceded forth to the war, with all maner of instrumentes of war fyftie M. that were prepared to the war
WiktionaryIf you think well to carry this as you may, the doubleness of the benefit defends the deceit from reproof.
WiktionaryI only know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, of thoughts and affections; and am sensible of a certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However in
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