All 3 Uses of
hypocrite
in
Tom Jones, by Henry Fielding
- A treacherous friend is the most dangerous enemy; and I will say boldly, that both religion and virtue have received more real discredit from hypocrites than the wittiest profligates or infidels could ever cast upon them: nay, farther, as these two, in their purity, are rightly called the bands of civil society, and are indeed the greatest of blessings; so when poisoned and corrupted with fraud, pretence, and affectation, they have become the worst of civil curses, and have enabled men to perpetrate the most cruel mischiefs to their own species.†
Book 3hypocrites = people who violate moral standards they claim to hold
- Thus the hypocrite may be said to be a player; and indeed the Greeks called them both by one and the same name.†
Book 7 *
- "Lookee, Mr Nightingale," said Jones, "I am no canting hypocrite, nor do I pretend to the gift of chastity, more than my neighbours.†
Book 14
Definition:
someone who violates claimed moral standards