sanctimoniousness

sanctimoniousness
noun see sanctimonious

New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.

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  • sanctimoniousness — index blasphemy, hypocrisy Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • sanctimoniousness — sanctimonious ► ADJECTIVE derogatory ▪ making a show of being morally superior. DERIVATIVES sanctimoniously adverb sanctimoniousness noun sanctimony noun. ORIGIN from Latin sanctimonia sanctity …   English terms dictionary

  • Sanctimoniousness — Sanctimonious Sanc ti*mo ni*ous, a. [See {Sanctimony}.] 1. Possessing sanctimony; holy; sacred; saintly. Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. Making a show of sanctity; affecting saintliness; hypocritically devout or pious. Like the sanctimonious pirate. Shak …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • sanctimoniousness — See sanctimoniously. * * * …   Universalium

  • sanctimoniousness — noun The property of being sanctimonious …   Wiktionary

  • sanctimoniousness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun A show or expression of feelings or beliefs one does not actually hold or possess: hypocrisy, Pharisaism, phoniness, sanctimony, tartuffery, two facedness. See HONEST …   English dictionary for students

  • sanctimoniousness — sanc·ti mo·ni·ous·ness· || ‚sæŋktɪməʊnɪesnɪs n. self righteousness, hypocritical devoutness, quality of pretending to be pious …   English contemporary dictionary

  • sanctimoniousness — n. Pharisaism, hypocrisy, cant, formalism, pietism, sanctimony, assumed piety …   New dictionary of synonyms

  • sanctimoniousness — sanc·ti·mo·ni·ous·ness …   English syllables

  • sanctimoniousness — See: sanctimonious …   English dictionary

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