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Webster 1913 Edition
Deceptivity
Deˊcep-tiv′i-ty
,Noun.
Deceptiveness; a deception; a sham.
[R.]
Carlyle.
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deceptivity
deceptivity
English
Noun
deceptivity (usually uncountable, plural deceptivities)
- deceptiveness; a deception; a sham.
- 1843 Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present
- Alas, if he look to the Seen Powers only, he may as well quit the business; his No-thing will never rightly issue as a Thing, but as a Deceptivity, a Sham-thing, — which it had better not do!
- 1843 Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present