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sanctimony


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Sanctimony  \Sanc"ti*mo*ny\,  n.  [L.  sanctimonia,  fr  sanctus 
  holy:  cf  OF  sanctimonie  See  {Saint}.] 
  Holiness;  devoutness;  scrupulous  austerity;  sanctity; 
  especially,  outward  or  artificial  saintliness;  assumed  or 
  pretended  holiness;  hypocritical  devoutness. 
 
  Her  pretense  is  a  pilgrimage;  .  .  .  which  holy 
  undertaking  with  most  austere  sanctimony  she 
  accomplished.  --Shak. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  sanctimony 
  n  :  the  quality  of  being  hypocritically  devout  [syn:  {sanctimoniousness}] 




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