"sanctimony" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈsæŋk.tɪˌməʊ.ni/ [UK], /ˈsæŋk.təˌməʊ.ni/ [UK], /ˈsæŋk.tɪˌmoʊ.ni/ [US], /ˈsæŋk.təˌmoʊ.ni/ [US] Forms: sanctimonies [plural]
Etymology: From Middle French sanctimonie, from Latin sānctimōnia (“sanctity, sacredness; purity, chastity”), from sanctus (“holy”) + -monia (“action or result of an action”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|frm|sanctimonie}} Middle French sanctimonie, {{der|en|la|sānctimōnia||sanctity, sacredness; purity, chastity}} Latin sānctimōnia (“sanctity, sacredness; purity, chastity”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} sanctimony (countable and uncountable, plural sanctimonies)
  1. A hypocritical form of excessive piety, considered to be an affectation merely for public show. Tags: countable, uncountable Related terms: sanctimonious, sanctimoniousness, self-righteous, phony, holier-than-thou, virtue signalling Translations (a hypocritical form of excessive piety): престорена набожност (prestorena nabožnost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), fariseisme [masculine] (Catalan), 假仁假義 (Chinese Mandarin), 假仁假义 (jiǎrénjiǎyì) (Chinese Mandarin), skinhellighed [common-gender] (Danish), tekopyhyys (Finnish), tartuferie [feminine] (French), Scheinheiligkeit [feminine] (German), Frömmelei [feminine] (German), szenteskedés (Hungarian), álszenteskedés (Hungarian), szemforgatás (Hungarian), kenetteljesség (Hungarian), beannaíocht [feminine] (Irish), bréagchrábhadh [masculine] (Irish), santimonia [feminine] (Italian), 聖人ぶること (seijin buru koto) (Japanese), skinnhellighet [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), bigoteria [feminine] (Polish), dewocja [feminine] (Polish), świętoszkostwo [neuter] (Polish), świętoszkowatość [feminine] (Polish), ха́нжество (xánžestvo) [neuter] (Russian), santurronería [feminine] (Spanish), beatería [feminine] (Spanish), gazmoñería [feminine] (Spanish)

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.