‖ hypocrisis
(hɪˈpɒkrɪsɪs)
[L.: see hypocrisy.]
Hypocrisy, dissembling, feigning; a false or deceitful show.
| a 1225 Ancr. R. 198 Þe þridde hweolp is Ipocrisis; þet is þeo þet makeð hire betere þen heo beo. 1678 Phillips (ed. 4), Hypocrisis, a feigning or dissembling, a Rhetorical figure called by Julius Russinianus,..Pronunciatio. 1850 Carlyle Latter-d. Pamph. iv. 7 The miserable mortals, enacting their High Life Below Stairs, with faith only that this Universe may perhaps be all a phantasm and hypocrisis. |