Meaning of HYPOCRITE
| Pronunciation: | | 'hipukrit
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 WordNet Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | [n] a person who professes beliefs and opinions that they do not hold |
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| | Synonyms: | | dissembler, phoney, phony, pretender |
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| | See Also: | | beguiler, charmer, cheat, cheater, deceiver, slicker, smoothie, smoothy, sweet talker, Tartufe, Tartuffe, trickster, whited sepulcher, whited sepulchre | |
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| | Definition: | | Hypocrite
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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.
The hypocrite's hope shall perish. --Job viii.
13.
I dare swear he is no hypocrite, but prays from his
heart. --Shak.
Syn: Deceiver; pretender; cheat. See {Dissembler}.
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| Easton Bible Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | 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. |
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| | Related Terms: | | 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, Holy Willie, humbug, imitator, impersonator, imposter, impostor, Joseph Surface, liar, lip server, lip worshiper, masquerader, Mawworm, mealymouth, mime, mimer, mimic, mimicker, mocker, mockingbird, monkey, mountebank, parrot, Pecksniff, 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, Tartuffe, whited sepulcher |
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