Found 3 hits - Term: sanctimony, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
sanctimony \sanc"timony\, 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.
1913 webster
see also:
saint
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
sanctimony
n : the quality of being hypocritically devout syn: sanctimoniousness
see also:
sanctimoniousness
- [3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
61 moby thesaurus words for "sanctimony":
pecksniffery, quakerishness, tartuffery, tartuffism, bibliolatry,
cant, censoriousness, charismatic gift, charismatic movement,
charismatic renewal, demureness, demurity, empty gesture,
false modesty, false piety, fanaticism, gift of tongues,
glossolalia, hideboundness, hypocrisy, hypocriticalness,
lip service, mauvaise honte, mealymouthedness, mouthing, mummery,
narrowness, oiliness, ostentatious devotion, overdevoutness,
overmodesty, overpiousness, overreligiousness, overrighteousness,
overzealousness, pecksniffery, pentecostalism, pharisaicalness,
pharisaism, priggishness, primness, prudery, prudishness,
puritanicalness, religiosity, revival, revivalism,
sanctimoniousness, smugness, snuffling, soft soap,
stiff-neckedness, straitlacedness, stuffiness, sweet talk,
tokenism, unctuousness, zeal, zealotism, zealotry, zealousness
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