Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Sanctimony"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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.

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

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

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

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