单词 | sanctimony |
释义 | sanctimonyn. a. Holiness of life and character; the profession of holiness; religiousness, sanctity. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > religion > [noun] > state religiositya1382 religioustya1425 religiousnessa1475 sanctimony1541 society > faith > aspects of faith > holiness > saint > [noun] > condition of sanctityc1394 sanctimony1541 sainthood1551 saintship1631 saintliness1838 saintdom1842 1541 T. Elyot Image of Gouernance xxviii. f. 61v The chast lyuynge, sanctimony and prudence of our reuerend mother. ?1548 tr. J. Calvin Faythfvl Treat. Sacrament sig. Ciiv That we be therby more vehementlie stered vp, to sanctimonie and puritie of lyfe. a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) iv. iii. 53 Which holy vndertaking [sc. a pilgrimage], with most austere sanctimonie she accomplisht. View more context for this quotation 1623 R. Carpenter Conscionable Christian To Rdr. sig. Bijv The sauing power of inward sanctimony. a1657 W. Burton Comm. Antoninus his Itinerary (1658) 252 In old times it florished for nothing more then the Sanctimony and learning of the Bishops. 1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses I. 9 For conspicuous Vertue, sanctimony of Life, and acuteness..he was in great renown. 1725 N. Bailey tr. Erasmus All Familiar Colloquies 238 It came into my Mind, that to arrive at universal Holiness all at once, I would take a Journey to the holy Land, and so would return Home with a Back-Load of Sanctimony. b. Of a writer: Chastity or decorum of expression. rare. Cf. sanctitude n. 2. ΚΠ 1846 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. in Wks. II. 27/1 While I admired, with a species of awe,..the majesty and sanctimony of Livy. a. Sacredness. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > holiness > [noun] halidom971 holiness971 blessedheada1300 holiheada1300 holite14.. sanctitudea1525 sanctimony1583 sanctity1611 spiritualty1618 sacrosanctity1650 odour of sanctityc1684 sacredness1686 hallowedness1828 sacrosanctness1876 sanctifiableness1894 sacrality1958 1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. P2v If they should repose any religion, holinesse or sanctimonie in them [sc. surplice, tippet, etc.], as the doting Papists doe. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 321 The Rites are solemnized with greatest Sanctimonie, and Oathes taken of greatest consequence. 1629 Whitelocke in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll. (1659) 688 Is there such Sanctimony in the place [Parliament], that they may not be questioned for it elsewhere? 1683 Britanniæ Speculum 232 The whole Nation being bound to the Observance of this Law by the Sanctimony of an Oath, the Refusal whereof was made High Treason. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > property > [noun] temporalty1396 spiritualtyc1400 spirituality1468 temporalitiesc1475 temporala1525 sanctimoniesa1547 Guardian of the Spiritualties (also Spiritualty)1562 temporaries1596 guaca1604 sanctities1815 sacra1819 spiritual1827 a1547 Doctour Doubble Ale 40 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. III. 304 And so this folish nation Esteme..all dum ceremonies, Before the sanctimonies, Or Christes holy writ. 3. Pretended, affected or hypocritical holiness or saintliness; assumed or outward sanctity. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > piety > sanctimoniousness > [noun] hypocrisy?c1225 pope-holya1425 saunteringc1440 pope-holiness1528 Pharisaism?1573 lip-holiness1591 lip-religion1597 hypocrism1605 lip-devotion1613 sanctimonya1618 lip-worship1656 sanctimoniousness1679 unction1692 sanctification1768 goodiness1808 pietism1829 lip-reverencec1843 Pecksniffery1848 mawwormism1850 goody-good1851 lip-homage1858 devil-dodging1866 goody-goodiness1868 goody-goodyism1868 piosity1883 unctuosity1884 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > plainness > [noun] > purity chastity1760 sanctimony1830 sanctitude1855 chasteness1889 a1618 W. Raleigh Disc. Orig. Cause Warre (1650) E vij Questionlesse there was great reason, why all discreet Princes should beware of yeilding hasty beliefe to the Robes of Sanctimonie. 1751 G. Lavington Enthusiasm Methodists & Papists: Pt. III 231 Various Appearances and Arts of Sanctimony. 1823 H. Belfrage Monitor to Fam. 241 With the frown of sanctimony on the countenance. 1830 T. De Quincey Life R. Bentley in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 451 This epithet, bestowed playfully upon Whiston by Swift, in ridicule of his sanctimony. 1831 C. Thirlwall Lett. (1881) I. 102 The Edinburgh [Review] which has no great reputation for sanctimony. 1871 R. H. Hutton Ess. I. 290 The hard and false sanctimony of Pharisaism. 4. Apparently misused for sanctimonial n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > monasticism > nun > [noun] nuneOE sistereOE minchenOE nun-sisterOE spousea1200 ladyc1275 religious1340 clergess1393 homely womana1400 monialc1400 moinesa1513 sanctimoniala1513 vowess1533 nosegent1567 votaress1589 votress1597 monkess1602 White Lady1606 cloistressa1616 sanctimony1630 religiosea1657 clergywoman1673 religieuse1682 religioso1708 vestal1717 1630 T. Randolph Aristippus 26 I haue done as great wonders as these, when I extracted as much chastity from a Sanctimony in the English Nunnery, as cur'd the Pope of his lechery. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1541 |
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