Found 2 items, similar to sanctimony.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: sanctimony
sanctimony
n : the quality of being hypocritically devout [syn:
sanctimoniousness]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Sanctimony
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.
[1913 Webster]
Her pretense is a pilgrimage; . . . which holy
undertaking with most austere sanctimony she
accomplished. --Shak.
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