Hypocrisy definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary HYPOC'RISY, n. [L. hypocrisis ... concealment of one's real character or motives. More generally, hypocrisy is simulation, or the assuming of a false appearance of ... Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. Luke 12. 2. Simulation; deceitful appearance; false pretence. Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy. WordNet (r) 3.0 ... of agreement that is not supported by real conviction [syn: hypocrisy, lip service] 2: insincerity by virtue of pretending to have ... Greek hypokrisis act of playing a part on the stage, hypocrisy, from hypokrinesthai to answer, act on the stage, from ...
HYPOCRISY; HYPROCRITE definitions International Standard Bible Encyclopedia hi-pok'-ri-si, hip'-o-krit (choneph, chaneph; hupokrisis, hupokrites): (1) "Hypocrisy" occurs only once in the Old Testament as the translation ... 10:6, the Revised Version (British and American) "profane." (2) "Hypocrisy," "hypocrite" are frequent in the New Testament, chiefly in Christ ... the words, e.g. Mt 23:27 f, "full of hypocrisy and iniquity" (compare 23:29 f; 24:51); but, in ... such severe condemnation as on the hypocrites of His day. "Hypocrisy" (hupokrisis) occurs in Mt 23:28; Mr 12:15; Lu ... 56; 13:15; in Jas 3:17, anupokritos is "without hypocrisy," so the Revised Version (British and American), Ro 12: ...
... 4. The New Testament Account (1) Their Scrupulosity (2) Their Hypocrisy 5. Talmudic Classification of the Pharisees V. OUR LORD'S ... 6) was an evidence of the same spirit. (2) Their Hypocrisy. Closely akin to this is the hypocrisy of which the Pharisees were accused by our Lord. When ... in continuing the practice, consciously "acted." They were poseurs. Their hypocrisy was none the less real that it was reached by unconscious stages. Hypocrisy was a new sin, a sin only possible in a ... the insincerity of worship, but even they did not denounce hypocrisy, i.e. religion used as a cloak to hide ...
... talk with an affectation of religion, philanthropy, etc.; to practice hypocrisy; as, a canting fanatic. The rankest rogue that ever canted ... or sincerity; empty, solemn speech, implying what is not felt; hypocrisy. They shall hear no cant from me. --F. W. Robertson ... I. n. 1. Whining talk, pious prating, sanctimonious phrases. 2. Hypocrisy, affected piety, sham holiness. 3. Peculiar form of speech, professional ... gobbledygook, goody-goodiness, grade, gybe, heave round, heel, hook, humbug, hypocrisy, hypocriticalness, idiom, inclination, incline, inflection, insincerity, jargon, jargonize, jibe, jibe ...
... 1. Honesty of mind or intention; freedom from simulation or hypocrisy. We may question a man's prudence, when we cannot question his sincerity. 2. Freedom from hypocrisy, disguise or false pretense; as the sincerity of a declaration ... or state of being sincere ; honesty of mind ; freedom from hypocrisy Webster's 1913 Dictionary Sincerity Sin*cer"i*ty, n ... being sincere; honesty of mind or intention; freedom from simulation, hypocrisy, disguise, or false pretense; sincereness. I protest, in the sincerity ...
... Rigid observance of external forms of religion without genuine piety; hypocrisy in religion. Merriam Webster's noun Etymology: New Latin pharisaismus ... the Pharisees 2. often capitalized pharisaical character, spirit, or attitude ; hypocrisy Webster's 1913 Dictionary Pharisaism Phar`i*sa"ism, n ... Rigid observance of external forms of religion, without genuine piety; hypocrisy in religion; a censorious, self-righteous spirit in matters of ... of pharisaism.'' --Hammond. Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms n. Hypocrisy, formalism, sanctimoniousness, cant, pietism, phariseeism, assumed piety, false piety.
... hypocrite adjective Oxford Reference Dictionary n. a person given to hypocrisy. Derivatives: hypocritical adj. hypocritically adv. Etymology: ME f. OF ypocrite f. eccl.L f. Gk hupokrites actor (as HYPOCRISY) Webster's 1913 Dictionary Hypocrite Hyp"o*crite, n. [F ... plays a part on the stage, a dissembler, feigner. See Hypocrisy.] One who plays a part; especially, one who, for the ... Our Lord severely rebuked the scribes and Pharisees for their hypocrisy (Matt. 6:2, 5, 16). "The hypocrite's hope shall ...
... a hiding under a false appearance; a feigning; false pretension; hypocrisy. Dissimulation may be simply concealment of the opinions, sentiments or ... hiding under a false appearance; concealment by feigning; false pretension; hypocrisy. Let love be without dissimulation. --Rom. xii. 9. Dissimulation . . . when ... dissemblance, dissembler, dissembling, dissimulator, double-dealing, duplicity, feigning, guile, hiding, hypocrisy, lip server, masking, misrepresentation, pharisaism, pharisee, pretense, sanctimony, secreting, sham ...
... of agreement that is not supported by real conviction [syn: hypocrisy, lip service] Merriam Webster's noun Date: 1644 an avowal ... comforts with words only. Lip labor, unfelt or insincere speech; hypocrisy. --Bale. Lip reading, the catching of the words or meaning ... BOMFOG, Pecksniffery, Tartuffery, Tartuffism, cant, empty gesture, false piety, formalism, hypocrisy, hypocriticalness, lip devotion, lip homage, lip praise, lip reverence, lip ...
Hypocrisies definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Hypocrisy Hy*poc"ri*sy (h[i^]*p[o^]k"r ... false appearance of virtue or religion; a simulation of goodness. Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy. --Rambler. Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue. --La Rochefoucauld (Trans ...
... find very distasteful < hated to have to meet strangers > < hate hypocrisy > intransitive verb to express or feel extreme enmity or active ... to detest; as, to hate one's enemies; to hate hypocrisy. Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer. --1 John iii ... he loathed the lukewarmness of the Laodiceans; he detested the hypocrisy of the scribes and Pharisees; he abhorred the suggestions of ...
... or of being in reality what one appears to be; hypocrisy; used of persons. 1. Deceitfulness; hollowness; used of things; as ... see insincere Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms n. Duplicity, hypocrisy, dissimulation, deceitfulness, disingenuousness, dishonesty, falseness, faithlessness, bad faith. Moby Thesaurus ... tongue, forswearing, fraud, front, goody-goodiness, gush, hollow mockery, hollowness, hypocrisy, image, intrigue, jesuitism, jesuitry, mannerism, mealymouthedness, mere show, misapplication, mockery ...
... to detest; as, to hate one's enemies; to hate hypocrisy. Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer. --1 John iii ... he loathed the lukewarmness of the Laodiceans; he detested the hypocrisy of the scribes and Pharisees; he abhorred the suggestions of ...
... the purchase money, pretending it was the whole. When his hypocrisy was denounced by Peter, Ananias fell down dead; and three ... but purely voluntary (see especially Ac 5:4) Falsehood and hypocrisy ("lie to the Holy Spirit" Ac 5:3), rather than ...