Obs. Forms: 4–7 fai-, fayterie, -y(e, (4 faytrye, 6 faitry). [f. as prec. + -Y.] Fraud, deception, hypocrisy.
1377. Langl., P. Pl., B, XI. 90.
| ‘And wher-of serueth lawe,’ quod lewte · ‘if no lyf vndertoke it, | |
| Falsenesse ne faytrye.’ |
c. 1430. Pilgr. Lyf Manhode, II. liii. (1869), 96. Not that j sey thee thus for to putte thee in to faitourye [mistransl. Fr. festardye ‘indolence’].
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 147. Fayterye, fictio.
1539. More, Dyaloge, I. Wks. 40/1. I let passe ouer the faitry and falshed that is therin vsed.
1600. Holland, Livy, XXXIV. xxiii. 867. He [Philip of Macedon] charged the Romanes with fraud and faiterie.
