Hypocrite

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Hypocrite \Hyp"o*crite\, n. [F., fr. L. hypocrita, Gr. ? one who
     plays a part on the stage, a dissembler, feigner. See
     {Hypocrisy}.]
     One who plays a part; especially, one who, for the purpose of
     winning approbation of favor, puts on a fair outside seeming;
     one who feigns to be other and better than he is; a false


     pretender to virtue or piety; one who simulates virtue or
     piety.
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           The hypocrite's hope shall perish.       --Job viii.
                                                    13.
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           I dare swear he is no hypocrite, but prays from his
           heart.                                   --Shak.
  
     Syn: Deceiver; pretender; cheat. See {Dissembler}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  hypocrite
       n : a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he does not
           hold [syn: {dissembler}, {phony}, {phoney}, {pretender}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  80 Moby Thesaurus words for "hypocrite":
     Holy Willie, Joseph Surface, Mawworm, Pecksniff, Pharisee,
     Tartuffe, actor, affecter, ape, attitudinizer, bluffer, canter,
     canting hypocrite, charlatan, con man, confidence man, conformist,
     copier, copycat, copyist, counterfeiter, cuckoo, deceiver,
     dissembler, dissimulator, double-dealer, echo, echoer, echoist,
     fair-weather friend, faker, false friend, flimflam man,
     flimflammer, forger, formalist, fraud, humbug, imitator,
     impersonator, imposter, impostor, liar, lip server, lip worshiper,
     masquerader, mealymouth, mime, mimer, mimic, mimicker, mocker,
     mockingbird, monkey, mountebank, parrot, pharisee, phony, pietist,
     pious fraud, plagiarist, poll-parrot, polly, polly-parrot, poser,
     poseur, pretender, quack, ranter, religionist, religious hypocrite,
     sanctimonious fraud, sham, sheep, simulator, sniveler, snuffler,
     spiritual humbug, summer soldier, whited sepulcher
  
  

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Hypocrite
     one who puts on a mask and feigns himself to be what he is not;
     a dissembler in religion. Our Lord severely rebuked the scribes
     and Pharisees for their hypocrisy (Matt. 6:2, 5, 16). "The
     hypocrite's hope shall perish" (Job 8:13). The Hebrew word here
     rendered "hypocrite" rather means the "godless" or "profane," as
     it is rendered in Jer. 23:11, i.e., polluted with crimes.
     

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  HYPOCRITE, n.  One who, profession virtues that he does not respect
  secures the advantage of seeming to be what he depises.
  
  
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  I is the first letter of the alphabet, the first word of the language,
  the first thought of the mind, the first object of affection.  In
  grammar it is a pronoun of the first person and singular number.  Its
  plural is said to be _We_, but how there can be more than one myself
  is doubtless clearer the grammarians than it is to the author of this
  incomparable dictionary.  Conception of two myselfs is difficult, but
  fine.  The frank yet graceful use of "I" distinguishes a good writer
  from a bad; the latter carries it with the manner of a thief trying to
  cloak his loot.