adj.; profanity, profanation; blasphemy, desecration, sacrilege;
scoffing &c v.. [feigned piety] hypocrisy &c (falsehood) 544; pietism,
cant, pious fraud; lip devotion, lip service, lip reverence;
misdevotion†, formalism, austerity; sanctimony, sanctimoniousness &c
adj.; pharisaism, precisianism†; sabbatism†, sabbatarianism†; odium
theologicum [Lat.], sacerdotalism†; bigotry &c (obstinacy) 606,
(prejudice) 481; blue laws.
hardening, backsliding, declension, perversion, reprobation.
sinner &c 949; scoffer, blasphemer; sacrilegist†; sabbath breaker;
worldling; hypocrite &c (dissembler) 548; Tartufe†, Mawworm†.
bigot; saint [Iron.]; Pharisee; sabbatarian†, formalist, methodist,
puritan, pietist†, precisian†, religionist, devotee; ranter, fanatic,
juramentado†.
the wicked, the evil, the unjust, the reprobate; sons of men, sons
of Belial, the wicked one; children of darkness.
V. be impious &c adj., profane, desecrate, blaspheme, revile, scoff;
swear &c (malediction) 908; commit sacrilege.
snuffle; turn up the whites of the eyes; idolize.
Adj. impious; irreligious &c 989; desecrating &c v.; profane,
irreverent, sacrilegious, blasphemous.
un-hallowed, un-sanctified, un-regenerate; hardened, perverted,
reprobate.
hypocritical &c (false) 544; canting, pietistical†, sanctimonious,
unctuous, pharisaical, overrighteous†, righteous over much.
bigoted, fanatical; priest-ridden.
Adv. under the mask of religion, under the cloak of religion, under the
pretense of religion, under the form of religion, under the guise of
religion.
Phr. giovane santo diavolo vecchio [It].