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Sanctimony   Listen
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Sanctimony  n.  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."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Sanctimony" Quotes from Famous Books



... condemned guiltily, as he should not have condemned, Dutchmen and colonials, their churches, their social order, and their sanctimony. 'Thank God I was at plebeian Oxford,' he said, 'and was free to mix with colored men. This is far more select, this dorp academy, with its elect Principal and its supermen-managers.' We nearly had a row ...
— Cinderella in the South - Twenty-Five South African Tales • Arthur Shearly Cripps



Words linked to "Sanctimony" :   sanctimoniousness



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