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Old French
Etymology
From Latin hypocrisis, from Ancient Greek ὑπόκρισις (hupókrisis).
Noun
ypocrisie oblique singular, f (oblique plural ypocrisies, nominative singular ypocrisie, nominative plural ypocrisies)
- hypocrisy
c. 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[.]- The 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
Descendants