affected piety
1pietism — n. 1 a pious sentiment. b an exaggerated or affected piety. 2 (esp. as Pietism) hist. a movement for the revival of piety in the Lutheran Church in the 17th c. Derivatives: pietist n. pietistic adj. pietistical adj. Etymology: G Pietismus (as… …
2Pietism — n. 1 a pious sentiment. b an exaggerated or affected piety. 2 (esp. as Pietism) hist. a movement for the revival of piety in the Lutheran Church in the 17th c. Derivatives: pietist n. pietistic adj. pietistical adj. Etymology: G Pietismus (as… …
3cant — I. n. 1. Whining talk, pious prating, sanctimonious phrases. 2. Hypocrisy, affected piety, sham holiness. 3. Peculiar form of speech, professional parlance, partisan vocabulary, shibboleths of sect, popular cry. 4. Slang, jargon, low language,… …
4CAN'T — contr. can not. * * * ˈkant, aa(ə) , ai ; esp S ā ; esp NewEng & Brit ȧ , ä ; sporadically e Etymology: by contraction : can not * * * /kant, kahnt/ contraction of cannot. Usage. See can1, cannot, contraction. * * * can t contraction of ↑ …
5Cant. — abbr. Canticles (Old Testament). * * * 1. Canterbury. 2. Cantonese. * * * abbrev 1. Canterbury 2. Canticles * * * cant1 «kant», noun, adjective, verb. –n. 1. talk that is not sincere; moral or religious statements t …
6The Story of an African Farm — For the 2004 film of The Story of an African Farm see The Story of an African Farm (film) The Story of an African Farm (published 1883 under the pseudonym Ralph Iron ) was South African author Olive Schreiner s first novel. It was an immediate… …
7cant — [n1] hypocritical statement affected piety, deceit, dishonesty, humbug, hypocrisy, hypocriticalness, insincerity, lip service*, pecksniffery, pharisaicalness, pious platitudes, pomposity, pretense, pretentiousness, sanctimoniousness, sanctimony,… …
8sanctimony — [saŋk′tə mō΄nē] n. [OFr sanctimonie < L sanctimonia < sanctus, holy: see SAINT] 1. affected piety or righteousness; religious hypocrisy 2. obs. var. of SANCTITY …
9religiousism — noun exaggerated or affected piety and religious zeal • Syn: ↑religiosity, ↑religionism, ↑pietism • Derivationally related forms: ↑pietistical (for: ↑pietism), ↑pietistic …
10Europe, history of — Introduction history of European peoples and cultures from prehistoric times to the present. Europe is a more ambiguous term than most geographic expressions. Its etymology is doubtful, as is the physical extent of the area it designates.… …
