hypocrite : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: hypocrite	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for hypocrite
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hypocrite n a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives Synonym(s): hypocrite, dissembler, dissimulator, phony, phoney, pretender
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hypocrite \Hyp"o*crite\, n. [F., fr. L. hypocrita, Gr. [?] one who plays a part on the stage, a dissembler, feigner. See {Hypocrisy}.] One who plays a part; especially, one who, for the purpose of winning approbation of favor, puts on a fair outside seeming; one who feigns to be other and better than he is; a false pretender to virtue or piety; one who simulates virtue or piety. The hypocrite's hope shall perish. --Job viii. 13. I dare swear he is no hypocrite, but prays from his heart. --Shak. Syn: Deceiver; pretender; cheat. See {Dissembler}.
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Hypocrite one who puts on a mask and feigns himself to be what he is not; a dissembler in religion. Our Lord severely rebuked the scribes and Pharisees for their hypocrisy (Matt. 6:2, 5, 16). "The hypocrite's hope shall perish" (Job 8:13). The Hebrew word here rendered "hypocrite" rather means the "godless" or "profane," as it is rendered in Jer. 23:11, i.e., polluted with crimes.