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  1.  Having two faces: = DOUBLE-FACED 1.

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1659.  T. Pecke, Parnassi Puerp., 160. Janus … The Two-fac’d God.

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1793.  Martyn, Lang. Bot., s.v., Two-faced leaves.

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1861.  J. G. Sheppard, Fall of Rome, i. 13. January presents itself under the influence of the ‘Two-faced Janus.’

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  2.  fig. Deceitful, insincere: = DOUBLE-FACED 2.

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a. 1619.  Fletcher, etc., Q. Corinth, III. ii. Who can trust The gentle looks and words of two-faced man?

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1720.  Welton, Suffer. Son of God, II. xiv. 364. People, who, in Private … approve of the principles of Religion, but act the Libertine in the face of the World…. These loose and Two-fac’d Christians.

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1864.  in J. H. Newman, Apol., v. 429. Two-faced persons, who did not go simply and straightforwardly to work.

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  Hence Two-facedness.

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1882.  in Jamieson’s Sc. Dict., IV. 647.

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1889.  Talmage, Serm., in Voice (N. Y.), 10 Oct. What subterfuge, what double-dealing, what two-facedness.

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