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Here's the Word of the Day as broadcast by Andi Laine on Sunday, August 22nd, 2010

Perfidy \pur-fi-dee\ noun

1. deliberate breach of faith or trust; faithlessness; treachery

2. an act or instance of faithlessness or treachery.

Perfidy surfaced in the English language in the 16th century from the Latin perfidia meaning "falsehood, treachery," from perfidus "faithless," which comes from the phrase -per fidem decipere- or "to deceive through trustingness."

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