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  • noun Obsolete form of hypocrisy.

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Examples

  • C'est d'une hypocrisie primaire et le résultat principal en est une péjoration du comfort des voyageurs.

    Berlin, Belgrade: Two Contrasting Airport Experiences — Climb to the Stars 2007

  • C'est d'une hypocrisie primaire et le résultat principal en est une péjoration du comfort des voyageurs.

    2007 November — Climb to the Stars 2007

  • God requireth not an uniformity of Religion to be inacted and inforced in any civill State; which inforced uniformity sooner or later is the greatest occasion of civill Warre, ravishing of conscience, persecution of Christ Jesus in his servants, and of the hypocrisie and destruction of millions of souls.

    Constitutional blood. Ann Althouse 2005

  • Declaring, that in few, discreete, and well placed words, the covered craft of church-Men may bee justly reproved, and their hypocrisie honestly discovered

    The Decameron 2004

  • Wherein is contained, how hard a thing it is, to distinguish goodnesse from hypocrisie; and how (under the shadow of holinesse) the wickednesse of one man, may deceive many

    The Decameron 2004

  • Declaring, that in few, discreete, and well placed words, the covered craft of church-Men may bee justly reproved, and their hypocrisie honestly discovered

    The Decameron 2004

  • An honest plaine meaning man, (simply and conscionably) reprehended the malignity, hypocrisie, and misdemeanour of many

    The Decameron 2004

  • Wherein is contained, how hard a thing it is, to distinguish goodnesse from hypocrisie; and how (under the shadow of holinesse) the wickednesse of one man, may deceive many

    The Decameron 2004

  • Philippe-le-Bel, par hypocrisie de z鑜e et de religion, affecta un moment de vouloir en former une nouvelle pour la France.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • (_In the margin_,) Note the hypocrisie of worldlings.

    The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

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