sham holiness

  • 1sham pleading — Those which are inherently false and must have been known by interposing party to be untrue. Pentecostal Holiness Church, Inc. v. Mauney, Fla.App., 270 So.2d 762, 769. A sham pleading , subject to motion to strike (Fed.R.Civil P. 12(f)), is one… …

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  • 2Byzantine literature — may be defined as the Greek literature of the Middle Ages, whether written in the territory of the Byzantine Empire or outside its bordersEncyclopaedia Britannica Greek literature: Byzantine literature ] . It forms the second period in the… …

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  • 3Byzantine Literature — • The four cultural elements included are the Greek, the Christian, the Roman, and the Oriental Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Byzantine Literature     Byzantine Literature …

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  • 4cant — I. n. 1. Whining talk, pious prating, sanctimonious phrases. 2. Hypocrisy, affected piety, sham holiness. 3. Peculiar form of speech, professional parlance, partisan vocabulary, shibboleths of sect, popular cry. 4. Slang, jargon, low language,… …

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  • 5cant — [n1] hypocritical statement affected piety, deceit, dishonesty, humbug, hypocrisy, hypocriticalness, insincerity, lip service*, pecksniffery, pharisaicalness, pious platitudes, pomposity, pretense, pretentiousness, sanctimoniousness, sanctimony,… …

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  • 6PHILOSOPHY, JEWISH — This article is arranged according to the following outline: WHAT IS JEWISH PHILOSOPHY? recent histories of jewish philosophy biblical and rabbinic antecedents bible rabbinic literature hellenistic jewish philosophy philo of alexandria biblical… …

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  • 7JERUSALEM — The entry is arranged according to the following outline: history name protohistory the bronze age david and first temple period second temple period the roman period byzantine jerusalem arab period crusader period mamluk period …

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  • 8biblical literature — Introduction       four bodies of written works: the Old Testament writings according to the Hebrew canon; intertestamental works, including the Old Testament Apocrypha; the New Testament writings; and the New Testament Apocrypha.       The Old… …

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  • 9Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama — Infobox Monarch name =Tenzin Gyatso title =14th Dalai Lama of Tibet caption =Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama reign =17 November 1950 – present coronation =17 November 1950 othertitles = full name = Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin… …

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  • 10TRAVELERS AND TRAVELS TO EREẒ ISRAEL — Jewish Travelers Jews have traveled to see the Holy Land ever since they first settled in the lands of the Diaspora, i.e., travel by Jews to Ereẓ Israel began from the time of the Babylonian Exile and in effect never ceased entirely from then to… …

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