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Doubleness
noun
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Noun
- 1 The state of being double or doubled. uncountable, usually
"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."
- 2 Behaviour intended to deceive people. uncountable, usually
"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."
Etymology
From Middle English doublenesse; equivalent to double + -ness.
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