单词 | pious fraud |
释义 | > as lemmaspious fraud c. pious fraud: a deception practised for the furtherance of what is considered a good object; esp. for the advancement of religion. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > [noun] > instance of > for worthy cause pious fraud1678 1632 Contin. Hist Forrein Martyrs 32/1 in Foxe's Acts & Monuments (ed. 7) III Their accustomed lies, which they term Fraudes pieuses, pious beguilings.] 1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 319 There is too much cause to suspect that there have been some Pious Frauds practised upon these Trismegistick Writings. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 419. ¶5 Pious Frauds were made use of to amuse Mankind. 1854 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity I. iii. vii. 462 The pious fraud of a nurse, who had substituted her own child for the youngest of the Emperor. < as lemmas |
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