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‖ hypocrisis|hɪˈpɒkrɪsɪs|
[L.: see hypocrisy.]
Hypocrisy, dissembling, feigning; a false or deceitful show.
a1225Ancr. R. 198 Þe þridde hweolp is Ipocrisis; þet is þeo þet makeð hire betere þen heo beo. 1678Phillips (ed. 4), Hypocrisis, a feigning or dissembling, a Rhetorical figure called by Julius Russinianus,..Pronunciatio. 1850Carlyle Latter-d. Pamph. iv. 7 The miserable mortals, enacting their High Life Below Stairs, with faith only that this Universe may perhaps be all a phantasm and hypocrisis. |