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Definition: Sanctimoniousness |
SanctimoniousnessNoun1. The quality of being hypocritically devout. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sanctimoniousness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1844. (references) |
Synonym: SanctimoniousnessSynonym: sanctimony (n). (additional references) |
| 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. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| "Sanctimoniousness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sanctimoniousness" is used about 3 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "sanctimoniousness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | نفاق في الدين. (various references) | |
Finnish | hurskastelu (bigotry). (various references) | |
French | ton moralisateur, attitude moralisatrice. (various references) | |
German | Scheinheiligkeit (feigned innocence, hypocrisy). (various references) | |
Greek | αγιοφάνεια, ψευδευλάβεια. (various references) | |
Hebrew | "תחס"ות (cant, hypocrisy). (various references) | |
Hungarian | álszentség (hypocrisy, self-righteousness). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | anctimoniousnesssay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | beatice (bigotry, hypocrite, pietism, sanctimony). (various references) | |
Romanian | sfinţenie (godliness, holiness, sanctity), evlavie prefãcutã. (various references) | |
Spanish | mojigatería (hypocrisy, priggishness, prudery, sanctimony), beatería (affected piety, pietism, piousness, sanctimony). (various references) | |
Swedish | fromleri (hypocrisy). (various references) | |
Thai | การเสแสร้งว่ามีศีลธรรม. (various references) | |
Turkish | yalancı sofuluk (religiosity, sanctimony), dindarlık taslama (sanctimony). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự phô trương lòng tin đạo (sanctimony), sự phô trương lòng mộ đạo (sanctimony), sự l m ra vẻ một đạo (sanctimony). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sanctimoniousness": sanctimoniousnesses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-i-m-n-n-n-o-o-s-s-s-s-t-u" | |
-4 letters: sanctimonious. | |
-5 letters: enunciations, nonmusicians, sanctimonies. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-i-m-n-n-n-o-o-s-s-s-s-t-u" | |
+2 letters: sanctimoniousnesses. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 61 6E 63 74 69 6D 6F 6E 69 6F 75 73 6E 65 73 73 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... .- -. -.-. - .. -- --- -. .. --- ..- ... -. . ... ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100001 01101110 01100011 01110100 01101001 01101101 01101111 01101110 01101001 01101111 01110101 01110011 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S a n c t i m o n i o u s n e s s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0061 006E 0063 0074 0069 006D 006F 006E 0069 006F 0075 0073 006E 0065 0073 0073 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5367806986757981807581878580718585 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage Frequency 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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