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‖ Tartuffe, Tartufe|tartyf, tɑːˈtuːf|
Also 7–8 tartuff.
[F. Tartufe, Tartuffe, name of the principal character (a religious hypocrite) in a comedy by Molière (1664): app. = OF. tartuffe, It. tartuffo truffle, as a concealed production.
Littré cites It. Tartufo, name of a character in the Malmantile of Lippi, as app. Molière's source.]
A hypocritical pretender to religion, or, by extension, to excellence of any kind.
1688Pulpit Popery, True Popery 72 Well, let Schoolmen and Cardinals..be call'd in, they are but Tartuffs; for Exposition and Representation are now the Standard of Romish Doctrine. 1738Warburton Div. Legat. I. Ded. 24 Tartufes without Religion. 1765Sterne Tr. Shandy VIII. ii, The arrantest Tartuffe in science, in politics,—or in religion. 1878J. Payn By Proxy I. xii. 138 A touch of the Tartuffe or the Joseph Surface.
Hence Tarˈtufferie, -ery [F. tartuferie], Tartuf(f)ism, the character or conduct of a Tartuffe, hypocrisy; Tarˈtuffian, Tarˈtuf(f)ish adjs., pertaining to or characteristic of a Tartuffe, hypocritical, pretentious; hence Tarˈtuffishly adv.; Tarˈtuffily adv. (nonce-wd.).
1851Fraser's Mag. XLIII. 151 Her national *Tartuffery augmented and became more offensive. 1906Sat. Rev. 13 Oct. 450/1 That incorrigible ‘Tartufferie’ which marks all our conquests.
1872Routledge's Ev. Boy's Ann. 672 In such a very *Tartuffian way.
1915*Tartuffily [see Pecksniff].
1768Sterne Sent. Journ. (1778) I. 66 God help her!..she has some mother-in-law, or *tartufish aunt..to consult upon the occasion.
1824Examiner 594/1 That Alliance so *tartuffishly termed ‘holy’.
1688Pulpit Popery, True Popery 72 The *Tartuffism of Deposition of Princes, and Adoration of Images, and the rest of the once old and new Pulpit-Popery. 1891Sat. Rev. 10 Oct. 403/1 The victim of Tartufism of the most disgusting kind. |