ypocrisie
Old French
Etymology
From Ancient Greek
Noun
ypocrisie f (oblique plural ypocrisies, nominative singular ypocrisie, nominative plural ypocrisies)
- hypocrisy
- circa 1180,, Chrétien de Troyes, Perceval ou le conte du Graal:
- La senestre, selonc l'estoire,
senefie la vainne gloire
qui vint de fause ypocrisie.
Et la destre, que senefie ?
Charité, qui de sa bone oevre
pas ne se vante, ençois la coevre[.]- They left, according to history
Represents vainglory
Which comes from false hypocrisy
And the right, what does that represent?
Charity, which does not
boast about its good work
- They left, according to history
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Related terms
- ypocrite (noun)
Descendants
- English: hypocrisy (borrowed)
- French: hypocrisie
- Romanian: ipocrizie (borrowed)
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