supercherieとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Middle French supercherie, itself borrowed from Italian soperchieria.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /suːˌpəːʃəˈɹiː/

名詞

supercherie (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 supercheries)

1. (obsolete) Foul play; an attack made by deceit. [16th-17th c.]
   • 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, The Essayes, […], printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
     , II.27:

     it is a Superchiery, […] as being wel armed, to charge a man who hath but a piece of a sword, or being sound and strong, to set upon a man sore hurt.

2. (now chiefly in French contexts) Deception, deceit; an instance of fraud. [from 17th c.]
   • 1863, Henry Rogers, ‘Critique on M. Renan's Vie de Jésus’:

     We […] should certainly deny to any teacher of morals, in any age, who resorted to such ‘supercherie’ and charlatanism, any very high place among the instructors and benefactors of mankind.

   • 2005, Timothy Garton Ash, The Guardian, 23 June:

     According to France's foreign minister, the British foreign secretary is guilty of perpetrating a supercherie.