supercherie
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Middle French supercherie, itself borrowed from Italian soperchieria.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editsupercherie (countable and uncountable, plural supercheries)
- (obsolete) Foul play; an attack made by deceit. [16th–17th c.]
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 27, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
- it is a Superchiery, […] as being wel armed, to charge a man who hath but a piece of a sword, or being sound and strong, to set upon a man sore hurt.
- (now chiefly in French contexts) Deception, deceit; an instance of fraud. [from 17th c.]
- 1863, Henry Rogers, Critique on M. Renan's Vie de Jésus:
- We […] should certainly deny to any teacher of morals, in any age, who resorted to such ‘supercherie’ and charlatanism, any very high place among the instructors and benefactors of mankind.
- 2005 June 23, Timothy Garton Ash, The Guardian:
- According to France's foreign minister, the British foreign secretary is guilty of perpetrating a supercherie.
French
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Italian soperchieria, obsolete form of soverchieria (“abuse; bullying”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editsupercherie f (plural supercheries)
Further reading
edit- “supercherie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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