KJV Dictionary Definition: guile

guile

GUILE, n. gile. 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.

Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile. John.1.

GUILE, v.t. To disguise craftily.

guileful

GUILEFUL, a. Cunning; drafty; artful; wily; deceitful; insidious; as a guileful person.

1. Treacherous; deceitful.

2. Intended to deceive; as guileful words.

guilefulness

GUILEFULNESS, n. Deceit, secret treachery.

Definitions from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.

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