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Hypocrit(e, -creit, n. Also: hypocryte, -crete, hipocrit(e, hiepo-, hepocreit. [e.m.E. hipo-, hypocrit(e (1530). Cf. Ypocrite.] A hypocrite.(a) 1562-3 Winȝet I. 53/25.
Sa iugeit I … thame … to hef bene afore werray finȝeit hypocritis 1558-66 Knox III. 16.
Cain, a wicked hipocrit, killed his brother Abell 1596 Dalr. I. 109/20.
Albeit the heretiks … say thay war al vicious and hipocrites a1605 Montg. Sonn. xxiv. 10.
Ane hypocrit, ane ydill atheist als(b) c1568 Lauder Minor P. iii.
The faithfull protestant and the dissemblit false hypocreit Ib. 63.
Title. The hypocretis makis gods mony one a1578 Pitsc. II. 56/7.
They [are] bot hiepocreitis and phariessieis that persecuttis thame Ib. 72/25.
Ane fallis hepocreit 1590 Burel Pilgr. ii. xxi.
Ye, o hypocreits prophane, That hes disaitfull harts
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