punic faith

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Punic faith¹

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Calque of Latin fidēs Pūnica.

noun punic faith · Punic Faith

  1. archaic, uncountable Treachery, deceitfulness, bad faith. His line of education, as well as his father's tenets in matters of church and state, had taught him a holy horror for Papists, and a devout belief in whatever had been said of the Punic faith of Jesuits.

    Similar: perfidy, prodition, traitory, betrayal, breach of promise, breach of trust, double-dealing, Judas kiss, perfidiousness, Punic faith, stab in the back, swike

punic faith²

noun

  1. uncountable Alternative letter-case form of Punic faith

Punic Faith³

noun

  1. uncountable Alternative letter-case form of Punic faith

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Portuguêsfé púnica
Françaisfoi punique

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@misc{punic_faith_2026,
  title = {punic faith},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/punic%20faith},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}