Deceit vs Malengine - What's the difference?
deceit | malengine |
An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick
An act of deceiving someone
* {{quote-book, year=1998, author=Mike Dixon-Kennedy, title=Encyclopedia of Greco-Roman Mythology, page=125, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=2U7okUE3PIcC&pg=PA125
, passage=Upon his return he killed Eriphyle for her vanity and deceit of him and his father. }}
(uncountable) The state of being deceitful or deceptive
* {{quote-book, year=1611, title=King James Bible, chapter=Psalms 10:7
, passage=His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.}}
(legal) The tort or fraudulent representation of a material fact made with knowledge of its falsity, or recklessly, or without reasonable grounds for believing its truth and with intent to induce reliance on it; the plaintiff justifiably relies on the deception, to his injury.
(label) Evil intent, bad intention; fraud, deceit.
*, Book VII:
*:I dare sey for good love she bade us to dyner and nat for no male engyne .
*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queen) , III.i:
*:the chaste damzell, that had neuer priefe / Of such malengine and fine forgerie, / Did easily beleeue her strong extremitie.
*1641 , (John Milton), Of Reformation :
*:for when the protector's brother, Lord Sudley, the admiral, through private malice and mal-engine was to lose his life, no man could be found fitter than Bishop Latimer.
As nouns the difference between deceit and malengine
is that deceit is an act or practice intended to deceive; a trick while malengine is (label) evil intent, bad intention; fraud, deceit.deceit
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* (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- The whole conversation was merely a deceit .
