Bible Dictionaries
Hypocrite
Webster's Dictionary
(n.) 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.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Hypocrite'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​h/hypocrite.html. 1828.