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sanctimony|ˈsæŋktɪmənɪ| [a. OF. sainct-, sant-, sanctimonie, ad. L. sanctimōnia sacredness, sanctity, virtuousness, f. sanct-us holy: see -mony.] †1. Holiness of life and character; the profession of holiness; religiousness, sanctity. Obs.
1540–1Elyot Image Gov. 102 The chaste liuing, sanctimonie and prudence of our reuerend mother. 1546Coverdale Calvin's Treat. Sacrament C j, That we be therby more vehementlie stered vp to sanctimonie and puritie of lyfe. 1601Shakes. All's Well iv. iii. 59 Which holy vnder⁓taking [a pilgrimage], with most austere sanctimonie she accomplisht. 1623R. Carpenter Conscionable Christian To Rdr. B ij b, The sauing power of inward sanctimony. 1658W. Burton Itin. Anton. 252 In old times it florished for nothing more then the Sanctimony and learning of the Bishops. 1691Wood Ath. Oxon. I. 9 For conspicuous Vertue, sanctimony of Life, and acuteness..he was in great renown. 1725Bailey Erasm. Colloq. (1733) 238 It came into my Mind that, to arrive at universal Holiness all at once, I would take a Journey to the holy Land, and so would return Home with a Back-Load of Sanctimony. b. Of a writer: Chastity or decorum of expression. rare—1. Cf. sanctitude 2.
1829Landor Imag. Conv., Lucian & Tim. Wks. 1853 II. 27/1 While I admired, with a species of awe,..the majesty and sanctimony of Livy. †2. Sacredness. Obs.
1583Stubbes Anat. Abus. ii. (1882) 111 If they should repose any religion, holinesse or sanctimonie in them [sc. surplice, tippet, etc.] as the doting Papists doe. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 321 The Rites are solemnized with greatest Sanctimonie, and Oathes taken of greatest consequence. 1629Whitelocke in Rushw. Hist. Coll. (1659) I. 688 Is there such Sanctimony in the place [Parliament], that they may not be questioned for it elsewhere? 1683Brit. Spec. 232 The whole Nation being bound to the Observance of this Law by the Sanctimony of an Oath, the Refusal whereof was made High Treason. †b. pl. Things sacred. Obs.
a1547Doctour Doubble Ale 40 in Hazl. E.P.P. III. 304 And so this folish nation Esteme..all dum ceremonies, Before the sanctimonies, Or Christes holy writ. 3. Pretended, affected or hypocritical holiness or saintliness; assumed or outward sanctity.
a1618Raleigh War E vij, Questionlesse there was great reason, why all discreet Princes should beware of yeilding hasty beliefe to the Robes of Sanctimonie. 1749–51G. Lavington Enthus. Meth. & Papists (1829) 319 Various appearances and arts of sanctimony. 1823H. Belfrage Monitor to Fam. 241 With the frown of sanctimony on the countenance. 1830De Quincey Bentley Wks. 1863 VI. 69 note, This epithet, bestowed playfully upon Whiston by Swift, in ridicule of his sanctimony. 1831Thirlwall Lett. (1881) I. 102 The Edinburgh [Review] which has no great reputation for sanctimony. 1871R. H. Hutton Ess. I. 290 The hard and false sanctimony of Pharisaism. ¶4. App. misused for sanctimonial n.
1630Randolph Aristippus 26, I haue done as great wonders as these, when I extracted as much chastity from a Sanctimony in the English Nunnery, as cur'd the Pope of his lechery. |