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Sanctimony
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: noun (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. Shak.