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duplicitous, a. (Formerly at duplicity n.)|djuːˈplɪsɪtəs|
[f. duplicity n.: see -ous.]
Characterized by or displaying duplicity.
1. Law (orig. U.S.). That involves the pleading of two or more matters in one plea.
1890Texas Reports (1891) LXXVIII. 403 It [sc. the petition] is duplicitous and hypothetical in this, that it states [etc.]. 1904Southern Reporter (U.S.) XXXVI. 62/2 Blending them together would tend to confuse the issues and make the pleading duplicitous. 1932Federal Reporter (U.S.) (1933) 2nd Ser. LXI. 418/2 The principal contention of appellant is that the indictment is vague, indefinite, and duplicitous. 1949Ibid. CLXXIV. 921/1 Appellant moved to dismiss the information on the ground that each of the counts was duplicitous in that each attempted to charge more than one offense denounced by the Act. 1986Brit. Med. Jrnl. 31 May 1453/1 A charge should not be ‘duplicitous’—in other words,..it should not roll a number of allegations up into one charge.
2. Deceitful, two-faced; double-dealing.
1958W. Miller Way we live Now 114 That's not what I mean by duplicity. Duplicitous is when you are not being for real, when you are not playing your role honestly. Most of us lead duplicitous lives. 1966New Statesman 11 Mar. 350/3 Peggy Mount, as the duplicitous washerwoman,..subdues her comic extravagance. 1969G. Leff Hist. & Social Theory ii. 44 Whether John was contrite or merely duplicitous in acceding to the barons' demands in 1215 is irrelevant to the meaning of Magna Carta. 1978S. Brill Teamsters iii. 106 If anyone had been duplicitous, it had been Hoffa. 1987New Yorker 19 Jan. 61/2, I came away feeling that he..didn't have the experience or the background to deal with the duplicitous ministers.
3. Characterized by a twofold structure or arrangement; numerically or physically double.
1985Times Lit. Suppl. 22 Mar. 324/1 The method itself is duplicitous, coupling the columns, as in all grand processions, so that Henry Adams paces with Eliot, Emerson with Thoreau.
Hence duˈplicitousness n. chiefly U.S., the quality or condition of being duplicitous; duplicity.
1951South Western Reporter (U.S.) 2nd Ser. CCXLIV. 662/2 The matter of duplicitousness of the assignment is not raised. 1966Federal Reporter (U.S.) 2nd Ser. CCCLIX. 973/2 Duplicitousness of Count Five. This Count charged appellants..with violation of the relevant statute on two occasions. 1979N.Y. Law Jrnl. 2 Jan. 2/3 ‘The defendant also contends that the indictment is void for ‘duplicitousness’.’ It is not clear who coined that word, whether the court borrowed it from the defendant's brief or invented it to denote a duplication, for that was the defendant's claim. 1985New Hampshire Reports CXXVI. 646 The duplicitousness runs afoul of the requirement that an indictment inform a defendant of the charge he must meet. |