Sanctimony

3 definitions found

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

  Sanctimony \Sanc"ti*mo*ny\, n. [L. sanctimonia, fr. sanctus
     holy: cf. OF. sanctimonie. See {Saint}.]
     Holiness; devoutness; scrupulous austerity; sanctity;
     especially, outward or artificial saintliness; assumed or
     pretended holiness; hypocritical devoutness.
     [1913 Webster]


  
           Her pretense is a pilgrimage; . . . which holy
           undertaking with most austere sanctimony she
           accomplished.                            --Shak.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  sanctimony
       n : the quality of being hypocritically devout [syn: {sanctimoniousness}]

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

  61 Moby Thesaurus words for "sanctimony":
     Pecksniffery, Quakerishness, Tartuffery, Tartuffism, bibliolatry,
     cant, censoriousness, charismatic gift, charismatic movement,
     charismatic renewal, demureness, demurity, empty gesture,
     false modesty, false piety, fanaticism, gift of tongues,
     glossolalia, hideboundness, hypocrisy, hypocriticalness,
     lip service, mauvaise honte, mealymouthedness, mouthing, mummery,
     narrowness, oiliness, ostentatious devotion, overdevoutness,
     overmodesty, overpiousness, overreligiousness, overrighteousness,
     overzealousness, pecksniffery, pentecostalism, pharisaicalness,
     pharisaism, priggishness, primness, prudery, prudishness,
     puritanicalness, religiosity, revival, revivalism,
     sanctimoniousness, smugness, snuffling, soft soap,
     stiff-neckedness, straitlacedness, stuffiness, sweet talk,
     tokenism, unctuousness, zeal, zealotism, zealotry, zealousness