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hypocrite |
4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Hypocrite \Hyp"o*crite\, n. [F., fr L. hypocrita, Gr ? one who plays a part on the stage, a dissembler, feigner. See {Hypocrisy}.] One who plays a part especially, one who for the purpose of winning approbation of favor, puts on a fair outside seeming; one who feigns to be other and better than he is a false pretender to virtue or piety; one who simulates virtue or piety. The hypocrite's hope shall perish. --Job viii. 13. I dare swear he is no hypocrite, but prays from his heart. --Shak. Syn: Deceiver; pretender; cheat. See {Dissembler}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: hypocrite n : a person who professes beliefs and opinions that they do not hold [syn: {dissembler}, {phony}, {phoney}] From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Hypocrite one who puts on a mask and feigns himself to be what he is not a dissembler in religion. Our Lord severely rebuked the scribes and Pharisees for their hypocrisy (Matt. 6:2, 5, 16). "The hypocrite's hope shall perish" (Job 8:13). The Hebrew word here rendered hypocrite" rather means the godless" or "profane," as it is rendered in Jer. 23:11, i.e., polluted with crimes. From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]: HYPOCRITE, n. One who profession virtues that he does not respect secures the advantage of seeming to be what he depises I I is the first letter of the alphabet, the first word of the language, the first thought of the mind, the first object of affection. In grammar it is a pronoun of the first person and singular number. Its plural is said to be _We_, but how there can be more than one myself is doubtless clearer the grammarians than it is to the author of this incomparable dictionary Conception of two myselfs is difficult, but fine. The frank yet graceful use of I" distinguishes a good writer from a bad the latter carries it with the manner of a thief trying to cloak his loot.
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