2. Making a show of sanctity; affecting saintliness; hypocritically devout or pious. ``Like the sanctimonious pirate.'' --Shak. [1913 Webster] -- {Sanc`ti*mo"ni*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Sanc`ti*mo"ni*ous*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
sanctimoniousness — index blasphemy, hypocrisy Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
sanctimoniousness — sanctimonious ► ADJECTIVE derogatory ▪ making a show of being morally superior. DERIVATIVES sanctimoniously adverb sanctimoniousness noun sanctimony noun. ORIGIN from Latin sanctimonia sanctity … English terms dictionary
sanctimoniousness — noun see sanctimonious … New Collegiate Dictionary
sanctimoniousness — See sanctimoniously. * * * … Universalium
sanctimoniousness — noun The property of being sanctimonious … Wiktionary
sanctimoniousness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun A show or expression of feelings or beliefs one does not actually hold or possess: hypocrisy, Pharisaism, phoniness, sanctimony, tartuffery, two facedness. See HONEST … English dictionary for students
sanctimoniousness — sanc·ti mo·ni·ous·ness· || ‚sæŋktɪməʊnɪesnɪs n. self righteousness, hypocritical devoutness, quality of pretending to be pious … English contemporary dictionary
sanctimoniousness — n. Pharisaism, hypocrisy, cant, formalism, pietism, sanctimony, assumed piety … New dictionary of synonyms
sanctimoniousness — sanc·ti·mo·ni·ous·ness … English syllables
sanctimoniousness — See: sanctimonious … English dictionary
