Guile vs Legerdemain - What's the difference?
guile | legerdemain |
(uncountable) Astuteness often marked by a certain sense of cunning or artful deception.
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Deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty.
* 'The Bible - King James Version: John 1:47
to deceive, to beguile
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Sleight of hand; "magic" trickery.
*1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.9:
*:For he in slights and jugling feates did flow, / And of legierdemayne the mysteries did know.
A show of skill or deceitful ability.
*1673 , Gilbert Burnet, The mystery of iniquity unvailed , London, p. 128:
*:Certainly, that they are to this day so rife in Italy and Spain, and so scant in Britain, is a shrewd ground to apprehend Legerdemain, and forgery, in the accounts we get of their later Saints.
As nouns the difference between guile and legerdemain
is that guile is (uncountable) astuteness often marked by a certain sense of cunning or artful deception while legerdemain is sleight of hand; "magic" trickery.As a verb guile
is to deceive, to beguile.guile
English
Noun
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- Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile !