we're all just confused as to whom you were calling a hypocrite.
Soooo....who is the hypocrite? Everyone?
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 15:17:04 -0400, Monique Boea
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> uh....
>
> hypocrite
>
> \Hyp"o*crite\, n. [F., fr. L. hypocrita, Gr. ? one who plays a part on the
> stage, a dissembler, feigner. See
> <http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=hypocrisy> 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
> <http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=dissembler> Dissembler.
>
> [
> <http://dictionary.reference.com/go/http://www.merriam-webster.com/premium/d
> com/> Try Merriam-Webster Unabridged.]
>
> <http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=00-database-info&db=web1913>
> Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
>
> hypocrite
>
> n : a person who professes beliefs and opinions that they do not hold [syn:
> <http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=dissembler> dissembler,
> <http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=phony> phony,
> <http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=phoney> phoney]
>
> <http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=00-database-info&db=wn> Source:
> WordNet R 1.6, C 1997 Princeton University
>
> 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.
>
>
>
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