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Exclusion of meretricious ornament; purity of style, modesty, chasteness.
Pretended, affected or hypocritical holiness or saintliness; assumed or outward sanctity.
= sanctimony, n. 1b. rare.
Purity of style, etc.; see chaste, adj. 7 8.