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English
Etymology
From vulpine + -ism.
Noun
vulpinism (uncountable)
- (archaic) slyness; fox-like cunning; artfulness.
1858–1865, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: Chapman and Hall, , →OCLC:He was without guile, and had no vulpinism at all.
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