Definition of Hipocrite
Hyp"o*crite (?), n. [F., fr. L.
hypocrita, Gr. &?; one who plays a part on the stage, a
dissembler, feigner. See Hypocrisy.] One who plays a
part; especially, one who, for the purpose of winning approbation of
favor, puts on a fair outside seeming; one who feigns to be other and
better than he is; a false pretender to virtue or piety; one who
simulates virtue or piety.
The hypocrite's hope shall perish.
Job viii. 13.
I dare swear he is no hypocrite, but prays from
his heart. Shak.
Syn. -- Deceiver; pretender; cheat. See
Dissembler.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
HYPOCRITE, n. One who, profession virtues that he does not respect
secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises.
- 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
- someone who practices hypocrisy
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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