Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - hypocrisy
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Hypocrisy
hypocrisy
noun (plural -sies) Etymology: Middle English ypocrisie, from Anglo-French, from Late Latin hypocrisis, from Greek hypokrisis act of playing a part on the stage, ~, from hypokrinesthai to answer, act on the stage, from hypo- + krinein to decide — more at certain Date: 13th century 1. a feigning to be what one is not or to believe what one does not; especially the false assumption of an appearance of virtue or religion 2. an act or instance of ~
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n. (pl. -ies) 1 the assumption or postulation of moral standards to which one's own behaviour does not conform; dissimulation, pretence. 2 an instance of this. Etymology: ME f. OF ypocrisie f. eccl.L hypocrisis f. Gk hupokrisis acting of a part, pretence (as HYPO-, krino decide, judge) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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(hypocrisies) If you accuse someone of hypocrisy, you mean that they pretend to have qualities, beliefs, or feelings that they do not really have. He accused newspapers of hypocrisy in their treatment of the story... ? sincerity N-VAR c darkgreen]disapproval ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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~ n a way of behaving in which you pretend to have better moral principles than you actually do (sheer hypocrisy) (It's sheer hypocrisy for politicians to preach about family values when so many of them are having affairs.) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 12c., from O.Fr. ypocrisie, from L.L. hypocrisis, from Gk. hypokrisis "acting on the stage, pretense," from hypokrinesthai "play a part, pretend," also "answer," from hypo- "under" + krinein "to sift, decide." The sense evolution is from "separate gradually" to "answer" to "answer a fellow actor on stage" to "play a part." Hypocrite is ult. Gk. hypokrites "actor on the stage, pretender." ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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