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Definition: Sanctimony |
SanctimonyNoun1. The quality of being hypocritically devout. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sanctimony" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1602. (references) |
Etymology: Sanctimony \Sanc"ti*mo*ny\, noun. [Latin expression sanctimonia, from sanctus holy: compare to Old French expression sanctimonie. See Saint.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonym: SanctimonySynonym: sanctimoniousness (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. |
Piety | Noun: piety, religion, theism, faith; religiousness, holiness; Adjective: saintship; religionism; sanctimony; (assumed piety); reverence; (respect); humility, veneration, devotion; prostration; (worship); grace, unction, edification; sanctity, sanctitude; consecration. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Sanctimony |
| Etymologies containing "sanctimony": sanctimonious. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Sanctimony (2000) | |
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Theater & Movies | |
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| "Sanctimony" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sanctimony" 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.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "sanctimony": sanctimony-baiting. | |
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
sanctimony | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "sanctimony"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | moralizim. (various references) | |
Arabic | تظاهر بالتقوى. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | светост (godliness, holiness, sanctity), лицемерна набожност (pietism), лицемерие (cant, duplicity, falsity, hypocrisy, jesuitism, jesuitry, pharisaism). (various references) | |
Czech | svatouškovství. (various references) | |
French | dévotion. (various references) | |
German | Frömmelei (bigotry, false piety, piousness, religiosity). (various references) | |
Greek | υποκριτική, ευσέβεια (devoutness, piety, piousness, prayerfulness, religiousness), ευλάβεια (devotion, devoutness, piety, prayerfulness, regardfulness, reverence). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szenteskedés (sanctimonious snuffle), szentség (holiness, sacrament, sainthood, saintliness, sanctity), szentéletűség, szemforgatás (goggle), stílus tisztasága, stílus egyszerűsége, álszenteskedés (hypocrisy, pharisaism). (various references) | |
Italian | ipocrisia (cant, humbug, hypocrisy). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | anctimonysay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | santimônia, hipocrisia (cant, canting, grundyism, hypocrisy), falsa santidade, beatice (bigotry, hypocrite, pietism, sanctimoniousness). (various references) | |
Russian | ханжество (pietism, prudishness, puppetry, self-righteousness). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pobožnost (devoutness, godliness, piety, religiousness, sanctity). (various references) | |
Spanish | mojigatería (hypocrisy, priggishness, prudery, sanctimoniousness), beatería (affected piety, pietism, piousness, sanctimoniousness). (various references) | |
Swedish | skenhelighet (hypocisy, hypocrisy). (various references) | |
Thai | การแสร้งทำเป็นศัก"ิ์สิทธิ์. (various references) | |
Turkish | yalancı sofuluk (religiosity, sanctimoniousness), dindarlık taslama (sanctimoniousness). (various references) | |
Ukranian | священність (sanctity), святість (holiness, sainthood, saintliness, sanctity), святенництво (cant, pietism). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự phô trương lòng tin đạo (sanctimoniousness), sự phô trương lòng mộ đạo (sanctimoniousness), sự l m ra vẻ một đạo (sanctimoniousness). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "sanctimony" (pronounced sa"ngktumō'nē) |
| 6 | -t u m ō' n ē | testimony. |
| 5 | -u m ō' n ē | acrimony, alimony, ceremony, matrimony, palimony, parsimony, patrimony. |
| 3 | -ō' n ē | telephony. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-i-m-n-n-o-s-t-y" | |
-1 letter: antonymic. | |
-2 letters: actinons, antimony, antinomy, antonyms, canonist, contains, instancy, monastic, sanction, sonantic, syntonic. | |
-3 letters: actinon, actions, amnions, anoints, anonyms, anosmic, antonym, atomics, atonics, camions, cantons, canyons, cations, contain, cyanins, incants, maniocs, manitos, mansion, masonic, minyans, myotics, nations, onanism, onanist, osmatic, somatic, stannic, syconia. | |
-4 letters: actins, action, amnion, amnios, anions, annoys, anoint, anomic, anonym, antics, astony, atomic, atonic, camion, cannot, canons, canton, cantos, canyon, casino, cation, coatis, comity, conins, cotans, cyanin, cytons, incant, incony, inmost, macons, manics, manioc, manito, mantic, mantis, mascon, mascot, mastic, matins, minyan, misact, monist, mosaic, myosin, myotic, mystic, nancys, nanism, nasion, nastic, nation, nitons, nomina, octans, sanity, satiny, scanty, scotia, simony, sitcom, socman, sonant, syncom, tannic, tinman, tocsin, tomans, tonics. | |
-5 letters: actin, amino, amins, amity, amnic, amnio, ancon, anion, annoy, anomy, antic, antis, antsy, ascot, atoms, atomy, atony, ayins, cains, canny, canon, canso, canst, canto, cants, canty, cions, coast, coati, coats, coins, comas, conin, conns, costa, cotan, cyano, cyans, cymas, cyton, icons, iotas, macon, mains, maist, manic, manos, mason, matin, mayos, mayst, micas, minas, mincy, minny, mints, minty, misty, moans, moats, moist, monas, mynas, nancy, nasty, niton, noisy, nomas, nonas, octan, omits, ontic, osmic, ostia, saint, santo, satin, scant, scion, sonic, sonny, stain, stimy, stoai, stoic, stoma, stony, tacos, tains, tamis, tansy, tinny, toman, tonic, yonic, yonis. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-i-m-n-n-o-s-t-y" | |
+1 letter: nonmystical. | |
+2 letters: actinomycins, monosynaptic. | |
+3 letters: nonsystematic. | |
+4 letters: nonsymmetrical. | |
+5 letters: monocrystalline, sanctimoniously. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 61 6E 63 74 69 6D 6F 6E 79 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100001 01101110 01100011 01110100 01101001 01101101 01101111 01101110 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S a n c t i m o n y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0061 006E 0063 0074 0069 006D 006F 006E 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53678069867579818091 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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