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† pope-holy, a. (n.) Obs.
Forms: 4 papholy, 5 poope-, poppe-, (pomp-)holy, 5–6 pop holy, 5–7 pope-holy.
[app. f. pope n.1 + holy a., but taken in some way to represent F. papelard hypocritical: see papelard. In the first recorded instance translating OF. papelardie hypocrisy (Rom. Rose).]
Pretending to great holiness; (of actions, words, etc.) characterized by a show or pretence of piety; sanctimonious, hypocritical.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xiii. 284 Was none suche as hymself, ne none so pope-holy [v. rr. pomp holy, poppe holy; C. vii. 37 pop, poppe, pope, pomp holy]. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) V. 165 Þis Iulianus..bycam a monk, and made hym ful papholy [v.r. pop holy] under monkes wede [L. Cui tunc sub monachatu magnam religionem simulanti]. c1440Jacob's Well 74 Seynt gregorie seyth,..þat an ypocryte, a popholy man, is lyche an irane. a1460Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 251 Ye poopeholy prestis fulle of presomcioun. a1529Skelton Replyc. Wks. 1843 I. 209 Popholy and peuysshe presumpcion prouoked them [Lollards] to publysshe and to preche..howe it was idolatry to offre to ymages of our blessed lady. 1570Foxe A. & M. (ed. 2) 205 b/2 To cast y⊇ dyrt of these Popeholy Monkes in their owne face. 1589Cooper Admon. 223 Some hypocrites and Pope-holie persons.
¶b. erron. Popishly devout or holy.
1633D. R[ogers] Treat. Sacram. i. 5 Pope-holy persons, who are so leavened with superstition, that they thinke the Sacraments are holy things even by the work wrought.
B. n. Hypocrisy. to play the pope-holy: to play the hypocrite.
a1366Chaucer Rom. Rose 415 Another thing was don there write, That semede lyk an ipocrite, And it was clepid Poope-holy [Papelardie ert apelée]. c1430Lydg. Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 46 For popholy and vyce loke wel aboute. a1518Skelton Magnyf. 467 Counterfet conscyence, peuysshe pope holy. a1555Bp. Gardiner in Foxe A. & M. (1563) 746 Though some accompt me a papist, yet I cannot play the pope holy, as thold term was.
Hence † pope-ˈholiness Obs., sanctimoniousness, hypocrisy.
1528Tindale Obed. Chr. Man 88 Twich the scabbbe of ypocresye or popeholynes and goo aboute to vtter their false doctrine. 1535Goodly Primer, Passion v, Such is the pope holiness & feigned righteousness of hypocrites. 1583Golding Calvin on Deut. lx. 359 To their seeming it is a spice of moonkish hypocrisie or popeholinesse to thanke God. |