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Du"pli*ca*tive (?), a. 1. Having the quality of duplicating or doubling.

2. (Biol.) Having the quality of subdividing into two by natural growth. "Duplicative subdivision." Carpenter.

Du"pli*ca*ture (?), n. [Cf. F. duplicature.] A doubling; a fold, as of a membrane.

Du*plic"i*ty (?), n.; pl. Duplicities (#). [F. duplicité, L. duplicitas, fr. duplex double. See Duplex.] 1. Doubleness; a twofold state. [Archaic]

Do not affect duplicities nor triplicities, nor any certain number of parts in your division of things.

I. Watts.

2. Doubleness of heart or speech; insincerity; a sustained form of deception which consists in entertaining or pretending to entertain one set of feelings, and acting as if influenced by another; bad faith.

Far from the duplicity wickedly charged on him, he acted his part with alacrity and resolution.

Burke.

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3. (Law) (a) The use of two or more distinct allegations or answers, where one is sufficient. Blackstone. (b) In indictments, the union of two incompatible offenses. Wharton.

Syn. -- Double dealing; dissimulation; deceit; guile; deception; falsehood.

Dup"per (?), n. See 2d Dubber.

||Dur (?), a. [G., fr. L. durus hard, firm, vigorous.] (Mus.) Major; in the major mode; as, C dur, that is, C major.

||Du"ra (?), n. Short form for Dura mater.

Du`ra*bil"i*ty, n. [L. durabilitas.] The state or quality of being durable; the power of uninterrupted or long continuance in any condition; the power of resisting agents or influences which tend to cause changes, decay, or dissolution; lastingness.

A Gothic cathedral raises ideas of grandeur in our minds by the size, its height, . . . its antiquity, and its durability.

Blair.

Du"ra*ble (?), a. [L. durabilis, fr. durare to last: cf. F. durable. See Dure.] Able to endure or continue in a particular condition; lasting; not perishable or changeable; not wearing out or decaying soon; enduring; as, durable cloth; durable happiness.

Riches and honor are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness.

Prov. viii. 18.

An interest which from its object and grounds must be so durable.

De Quincey.

Syn. -- Lasting; permanent; enduring; firm; stable; continuing; constant; persistent. See Lasting.

Du"ra*ble*ness, n. Power of lasting, enduring, or resisting; durability.

The durableness of the metal that supports it.

Addison.

Du"ra*bly, adv. In a lasting manner; with long continuance.