| 单词 | whited sepulchre |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswhited (†painted) sepulchre b. whited (†painted) sepulchre: in biblical language, used figuratively for a hypocrite, or one whose fair outward semblance conceals inward corruption. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > hypocrisy > [noun] > a hypocrite hypocrite?c1225 dissimuler1386 whited (painted) sepulchre1388 dissimulator?a1513 dissembler1526 cafard1539 Tartuffe1688 hypocritic1818 Pecksniff1844 possum1846 slape-face1847 double-face1892 c1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Matt. xxiii. 27 Woo to ȝou scribis and Pharisees, that ben lic to sepulcris maad whijt.] 1388 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Matt. xxiii. 27 Like to sepulcris whitid. [1539 Bible (Great), painted sepulcres; 1582 N. T. (Rheims), whited sepulchres; so 1611.] c1530 W. Tyndale Prol. Epist. Rom. (1538) W iv b Christ..calleth them ypocrytes, that is to saye, simulers and paynted sepulcres. 1782 V. Knox Ess. II. xcvii. 61 Those varnished qualities, which, like whited sepulchres, are but a disguise for internal deformity. 1894 H. Caine Manxman 428 He was a sham,—a whited sepulchre. < as lemmas |
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