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Multiple Lane's Lexicon entries share the spelling خنعة, distinguished by diacritics. Select the entry that matches the word you're looking for.

• خَنْعَةٌ

  خَنْعَةٌ A thing that induces suspicion or evil opinion; a vitious, or an immoral, act; or adultery; or fornication. [See a remark on one of the pls. of خَانِعٌ.] You say, اِطَّلَعَتْ مِنْ فُلَانٍ عَلَى خَنْعَةٍ I became…

• خُنْعَةٌ

  خُنْعَةٌ Necessity, or constraint: and excuse. 2 رَجُلٌ ذُو خُنُعَاتٍ A man in whom is corruptness, or vitiousness, or corrupt or vitious conduct.…