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PIOUS FRAUD

Definition: PIOUS FRAUD

PIOUS FRAUD

1. (Ch. Hist.), a fraud contrived and executed to benefit the church or accomplish some good end, upon the theory that the end justified the means.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Synonyms within Context: PIOUS FRAUD

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Impiety	Hypocrisy; (falsehood); pietism, cant, pious fraud; lip devotion, lip service, lip reverence; misdevotion, formalism, austerity; sanctimony, sanctimoniousness; adj; pharisaism, precisianism; sabbatism, sabbatarianism; odium theologicum, sacerdotalism; bigotry; (obstinacy), (prejudice); blue laws.
Untruth	Irony; half truth, white lie, pious fraud; mental reservation; (concealment).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Modern Translation: PIOUS FRAUD

Language		Translations for "PIOUS FRAUD"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Bulgarian		лъжа с безкористни подбуди. (various references)

Hungarian		kegyes csalás, jóindulatú megtévesztés. (various references)

Pig Latin		iouspay audfray

Turkish		sahte dindarlık. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: PIOUS FRAUD

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-f-i-o-p-r-s-u-u"
	-3 letters: adipous, arduous, furious, sparoid.
	-4 letters: aroids, audios, aurous, douras, fiords, frauds, parous, purdas, radios, radius, rapids, rufous, sapour, souari, sparid, upsoar.
	-5 letters: adios, apods, aroid, audio, auris, dipso, dopas, dorps, dorsa, doura, drips, drops, duras, duros, fados, fairs, fards, faros, fiars, fidos, fiord, fords, fours, fraps, fraud, padis, padri, pairs, pardi, pards, paris.
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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography

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