Definition for GUILE

GUILE, n. [gile; Qu. Old French guille or gille. It may be the Celtic form of Eng. wile. See Ethiopic, Cast. col. 533.]

Craft; cunning; artifice; duplicity; deceit; usually in a bad sense. We may, with more successful hope, resolve / To wage by force or guile eternal war. Milton. Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile. John i.

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