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Counterfaisance vs Counterfeisance - What's the difference?

counterfaisance | counterfeisance |

As nouns the difference between counterfaisance and counterfeisance

is that counterfaisance is while counterfeisance is (obsolete) deception, dissimulation.

counterfaisance

English

Noun

(-)
    • (Webster 1913)

    counterfeisance

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) Deception, dissimulation.
  • *1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.viii:
  • *:For he in counterfeisance did excell, / And all the wyles of wemens wits knew passing well.