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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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