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cautel
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synonyms: chicanery, legerdemain, covin, dupery, cony-catching, cozening, quiff, abusion ???
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Definition:deceit
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Perhaps he loves you now; And now no soil nor cautel doth besmirch The virtue of his will: but you must fear, His greatness weigh'd, his will is not his own;
William Shakespeare. Hamlet
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And the traveller Leopold said that he should go otherwhither for he was a man of cautels and a subtile.
James Joyce. Ulysses
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