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Definition of Tartuffe

1. Noun. A hypocrite who pretends to religious piety (after the protagonist in a play by Moliere).

Definition of Tartuffe

1. n. A hypocritical devotee. See the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.

Definition of Tartuffe

1. Noun. A religious hypocrite ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Tartuffe

1. a hypocrite [n -S] - See also: hypocrite

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tartuffe

Literary usage of Tartuffe

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire (1824)
"He is a tartuffe; he is a true tartuffe. ... a new word formed from tartuffe—the action of a hypocrite^ the behaviour of a hypocrite, the knavery of a false ..."

2. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1896)
"ORGON PROPOSES MARIANNE'S MARRIAGE WITH tartuffe From 'tartuffe' Enter to ... Orgon — Very well: then tell me, what do you say of our guest, tartuffe ? ..."

3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1893)
"Everybody knows that tartuffe was a hypocrite, but everybody does not know to what class ... tartuffe is not a scoundrel of English growth, like Pecksniff, ..."

4. The Wallet of Time: Containing Personal, Biographical, and Critical by William Winter (1913)
"The excellence of "tartuffe" consists in its contrasts of character, ... tartuffe is the meanest and most loathsome of impostors, the licentious scoundrel ..."

5. Humour of France by Elizabeth Lee (1893)
"tartuffe. \tartuffe is an hypocrite who has obtained the ascendency in the house of his dupe, ... tartuffe! Oh, he is wonderfully well; fat and hearty; ..."

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