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- [sangk-tuh-moh-nee]
- /ˈsæŋk təˌmoʊ ni/
- /ˈsæŋktɪmənɪ/
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- [sangk-tuh-moh-nee]
- /ˈsæŋk təˌmoʊ ni/
Definitions of sanctimony word
- noun sanctimony pretended, affected, or hypocritical religious devotion, righteousness, etc. 1
- noun sanctimony Obsolete. sanctity; sacredness. 1
- noun sanctimony affected piety or righteousness; religious hypocrisy 0
- abbreviation SANCTIMONY sanctity 0
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Origin of sanctimony
First appearance:
before 1530 One of the 29% oldest English words
First recorded in 1530-40, sanctimony is from the Latin word sānctimōnia holiness. See Sanctus, -mony
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Parts of speech for Sanctimony
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sanctimony popularity
A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 47% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
According to our data about 50% of words is more used. This is a rare but used term. It occurs in the pages of specialized literature and in the speech of educated people.
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This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for sanctimony
noun sanctimony
- bad faith — intention to deceive; treachery or dishonesty (esp in the phrase in bad faith)
- dissimulation — the act of dissimulating; feigning; hypocrisy.
- glibness — readily fluent, often thoughtlessly, superficially, or insincerely so: a glib talker; glib answers.
- hypocrisy — a pretense of having a virtuous character, moral or religious beliefs or principles, etc., that one does not really possess.
- cant — a salient angle.
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