Hypocritical

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Middle English: from Old French ypocrite, via ecclesiastical Latin from Greek hupokritēs ‘actor’, from hupokrinesthai (see hypocrisy).


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From hypocritic + -al, from ὑποκριτικός(hupokritikós), from ὑποκριτής(hupokritḗs, “actor, hypocrite”), from ὑποκρίνομαι(hupokrínomai, “I play a part on stage”), from ὑπό(hupó, “below”) + κρίνω(krínō, “I choose”).


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hypocritical (adj.)

"of, pertaining to, or proceeding from hypocrisy," 1540s (implied in hypocritically), from hypocritic, which was used in the same sense, + -al (1). It won out over hypocritish (1520s), hypocritic (1530s). Middle English used simple hypocrite as the adjective (c. 1400) as well as the noun.