Crossword clues for duplicity
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
duplicity \du*plic"i*ty\, n.; pl. duplicities. [F. duplicit['e], L. duplicitas, fr. duplex double. See Duplex.]
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Doubleness; a twofold state. [Archaic]
Do not affect duplicities nor triplicities, nor any certain number of parts in your division of things.
--I. Watts. -
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.
Far from the duplicity wickedly charged on him, he acted his part with alacrity and resolution.
--Burke. -
(Law)
The use of two or more distinct allegations or answers, where one is sufficient.
--Blackstone.-
In indictments, the union of two incompatible offenses.
--Wharton.Syn: Double dealing; dissimulation; deceit; guile; deception; falsehood.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., from Old French duplicite (13c.), from Late Latin duplicitatem (nominative duplicitas) "doubleness," in Medieval Latin "ambiguity," noun of quality from duplex (genitive duplicis) "twofold." The notion is of being "double" in one's conduct (compare Greek diploos "treacherous, double-minded," literally "twofold, double").
Wiktionary
n. intentional deceptiveness; double-dealing.
WordNet
n. a fraudulent or duplicitous representation [syn: fraudulence]
acting in bad faith; deception by pretending to entertain one set of intentions while acting under the influence of another [syn: double-dealing]
Wikipedia
Duplicity is a software suite that provides encrypted, digitally signed, versioned, remote backup of files requiring little of the remote server. Released under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL), Duplicity is free software.
Duplicity devises a scheme where the first archive is a complete (full) backup, and subsequent (incremental) backups only add differences from the latest full or incremental backup. Chains consisting of a full backup and a series of incremental backups can be recovered to the point in time that any of the incremental steps were taken. If any of the incremental backups are missing then the incremental backups following it cannot be reconstructed. It does this using GnuPG, librsync, tar, and rdiff. To transmit data to the backup repository it can use SSH/ SCP/ SFTP, local file access, rsync, FTP, Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, Rackspace Cloud Files, and others. Refer to its man page for the constantly growing list of back-ends.
Duplicity works best under Unix-like operating systems (such as Linux, BSD, and Mac OS X), though it can be used with Windows under Cygwin. Currently duplicity supports deleted files, full Unix permissions, directories, and symbolic links, fifos, and device files, but not hard links.
Duplicity is the error committed when the charge (known as a count) on an indictment describes two different offences. An indictment may contain more than one count, but each count must allege only one offence, so that the defendant (and the jury) can know precisely what offences he or she is accused of. If a count is poorly drafted so that it alleges two offences, it is said to be duplicitous. A duplicitous count is defective and must be quashed by the judge, unless the judge permits the count to be amended so that it only alleges one offence, or is split into two counts. If a duplicitous count is not noticed until after the defendant has been convicted on it, the verdict may well be void.
This is a completely different situation from when two different counts each allege the same offence, which is sometimes wrongly referred to as duplicity.
Duplicity is a 2009 American romantic spy film written and directed by Tony Gilroy, and starring Clive Owen and Julia Roberts. The plot follows two corporate spies with a romantic history who collaborate to carry out a complicated con. The film was released on March 20, 2009.
Duplicity is the debut full-length studio album by English trance metal band Silent Descent. It was released on March 12, 2008. A music video was made for the title track "Duplicity."
"Duplicity" is the fourth episode of the American television series Revenge, it premiered on ABC on October 12, 2011.
It was written by Wendy Calhoun and directed by Matt Shakman.
Duplicity means deceitfulness. It may also refer to:
- Duplicity (law), when the charge on an indictment describes two different offences
- Duplicity (software), provides easy encrypted versioned remote backup of files
- "Duplicity" (Smallville episode), an episode of Smallville
- Duplicity (film), a 2009 comedy thriller starring Clive Owen and Julia Roberts
- Duplicity (album), the debut full-length studio album by English trance metal band Silent Descent
- Duplicity Remix EP, a 5-track EP by English trance metal band Silent Descent
- "Duplicity" (Revenge), the fourth episode of the American television series Revenge
Usage examples of "duplicity".
Project Duplicity deals with the development of a chemical which causes mitosis.
This was the second time allusions had been made that connected Project Duplicity and Adam.
The connection was the fear of bad press keeping Duplicity from being funded?
And bad press would lessen the odds for Project Duplicity being funded.
I know the study was holding up Project Duplicity from going to Congress for funding.
Project Duplicity tie in with what happened to Captain Burke and his men?
Prevent Project Duplicity from being funded until next year-after the investigation is completed.
Or, it would like to produce it-provided Project Duplicity gets funded.
Dean Funes only sees duplicity of language, but seems to excuse it in the circumstances in which the Jesuits were placed.
I wanted to go down to a clean stream and wash away my duplicity, but I had been under the klieg lights a long time, and realized that I could do little to change opinions that were rigidly fixed from the preceding centuries.
Taylor put it, this stance therefore buries its own tracks, and then spends its time loudly and rhetorically denouncing all those who do not have the duplicity to likewise conceal their own position.
But go to the Old Catholics for top drawer snobbism and your real streak of madness, the Anglicans are just the bastard child, perfidious Albion and all the rest of it, you want a taste of the social caste system in all its cruelty and duplicity?
His enemies were ready enough to allow his military talents, but they wished to attribute the first success of his not very deep policy to a marvellous duplicity, apparently considered by them the more wicked as possessed by a parvenu emperor, and far removed, in a moral point of view, from the statecraft so allowable in an ancient monarchy.
And if the Roman eunuch had chosen forgery and duplicity to peel away the illusion, Sanga had no need of such artificial devices.
But the Appalachian Law School shootout raised groupthink to a whole new category of duplicity.