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Tartuffe

Definition: Tartuffe

Tartuffe

Noun

1. A hypocrite who pretends to religious piety (after the protagonist in a play by Moliere).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "Tartuffe" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1664. (references)

Synonym: Tartuffe

Synonym: Tartufe (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Tartuffe

English words defined with "Tartuffe": Tartufish. (references)
Specialty definitions using "Tartuffe": Olivia, OrgonPernelleWilliam L. (references)

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Modern Usage: Tartuffe

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Tartuffe (1971)

Le Tartuffe (1984)

The Tartuffe or Imposter (1983)

Tartuffe ou L'imposteur (1980)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Tartuffe

DomainTitle

Books

  • CliffsNotes Tartuffe the Misanthrope and the Bourgeois Gentleman [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference)

  • Le Tartuffe Ou L'Imposteur (reference)

  • Misanthrope and Tartuffe (reference)

  • Tartuffe (Crofts Classics) (reference)

  • Tartuffe (Dover Thrift Editions) [UNABRIDGED] (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Use in Literature: Tartuffe

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

In spite of all the processes of purification, it exhales a vague odour, suspicious as Tartuffe, after confession.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Tartuffe

"Tartuffe" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Tartuffe" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)75%3202,518
Noun (singular)25%1339,140
                    Total100.00%4N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Tartuffe

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

tartuffe

163

moliere tartuffe

25

summary tartuffe

23

character tartuffe

9

molieres tartuffe

8

tartuffe by moliere

7

le tartuffe

4

essay tartuffe

3

cliff note tartuffe

3

tartuffe theme

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Tartuffe

Language Translations for "tartuffe"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Pig Latin

  

artuffetay.(various references)

   

Romanian

  

Ipocrit (cant, canter, canting, dissembler, double-dealer, double-dealing-faced, fairfaced, false, feigner, histrionic, hollow, hypocrite, hypocritical, pecksniffian, pharisaical, pharisee, pietist, squeamish). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

người giả nhân giả nghĩa (tartufe), người đạo đức giả (tartufe). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Tartuffe

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Old French900-1400

tartuffe. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations: Tartuffe

Derivations

Words beginning with "Tartuffe": tartuffes. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Tartuffe

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-f-f-r-t-t-u"

-1 letter: tartufe.

-2 letters: fatter, tauter, truffe, tuffet, tufter.

-3 letters: after, feuar, ruffe, tater, tetra, treat, urate, utter.

-4 letters: fare, fart, fate, fear, feat, feta, frae, frat, fret, raff, raft, rate, reft, ruff, tare, tart, tate, taut, tear, teat, teff, tref, tret, true, tufa, tuff, tuft, turf, urea.

-5 letters: aff, aft, are, arf, art, ate, att, ear, eat, eau, eff, eft, era, eta, far, fat, fer, fet, feu, fur, rat, ref, ret, rue, rut, tae, tar, tat, tau, tea, tet, tut, uta.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-f-f-r-t-t-u"
 

+1 letter: tartuffes.

 

+3 letters: suffragette.

 

+4 letters: quarterstaff, suffragettes.

 

+5 letters: quarterstaffs.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Tartuffe


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 61 72 74 75 66 66 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-    .-    .-.    -    ..-    ..-.    ..-.    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01100001 01110010 01110100 01110101 01100110 01100110 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#97 &#114 &#116 &#117 &#102 &#102 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0061 0072 0074 0075 0066 0066 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5467848687727271

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Quotations: Fiction
7. Usage Frequency
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Translations: Ancient
11. Derivations
12. Anagrams
13. Orthography
14. Bibliography


  

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