Twifaced

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Having two faces. archaic, poetic

    "These two of whom I tell, from their first hours. Or, like a twi-faced urn, which doth outflow With the same spring, […]"

  2. 2
    Two-faced; deceitful. obsolete

    "There is no time to measure motion by, There time is swallowed in eternity: Wry-mouth'd disdain, and corner-hunting lust, And twy-fac'd fraud, [...]"

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"These two of whom I tell, from their first hours. Or, like a twi-faced urn, which doth outflow With the same spring, […]"

Etymology

From twi- + faced.

Related phrases

two faced

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