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Sanctimony   Listen
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Sanctimony  n.  Holiness; devoutness; scrupulous austerity; sanctity; especially, outward or artificial saintliness; assumed or pretended holiness; hypocritical devoutness. "Her pretense is a pilgrimage;... which holy undertaking with most austere sanctimony she accomplished."






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"Sanctimony" Quotes from Famous Books



... my say yestidday an' now I'm done. Next time ther circuit-rider holds big meetin' I'm comin' through ter ther mourners' bench an' howl out sanctimony so loud I'll bust everybody's eardrums," and the big ...
— The Roof Tree • Charles Neville Buck



Words linked to "Sanctimony" :   sanctimoniousness, hypocrisy, sanctimonious



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