Trēach'er-y, n.

n. [Fr. tricherie, O. Fr. also trecerie, trekerie, trequerie, a cheating, trickery, from tricher. See suprà.] Violation of allegiance, or of faith and confidence; treasonable or perfidious conduct.

In the council chamber at Edinburgh, he had contracted a deep taint of treachery and corruption. Macaulay.