What's the correct definition of?

Question

Hypocrite?

Monica, my love!! where have you been??

Answer 1

It is from the Greek. In Greek theater they used masks to denote the hero or the villain. You see this as the logo for many theater groups (the happy and sad faced masks). The character that would use two masks was called the "Hoopo-creet", where in we get the word Hypocrite or "two-faced".

It has adjusted itself to being a person who says one thing, but does another. This is the common definition, but still fits the original Greek.

Answer 2

A person engaged in the practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.

Example: those who insist that others do not sin, while sinning themselves on a regular basis.

Gay marriage must remain illegal because it's a sin yet divorce (also a sin) is legal and practiced quite often.

Answer 3

Hypocrite: a person who indulges in hypocrisy.

Hypocrisy: the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform; pretense.

Answer 4

someone who says one thing, and then does the other.

Example...my sister says that she is a true christian and that people that live together before they are married, or have premarital sex are sinners....she lives with her boyfriend, and they just had a child. Notice I said boyfriend and not husband. She's a hypocrite.

Answer 5

One who doesn't first take the log out of his own eye.

Luke 6:41-42

"Why do you look at the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?" Or how can you say to your brother, " Brother let me take out the speck that is in your eye, "when you yourself do not see the log that is in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the speck that is in your brother's eye."

Answer 6

I know the song, the text, and the men
Who wrote the song, and taught her;
I know that in private they drank their wine,
And preached in public water.

(Ich kenne die Weise, ich kenne den Text,
Ich kenn auch die Herren Verfasser;
Ich weiß, sie tranken heimlich Wein
Und predigten öffentlich Wasser.)
Heinrich Heine, Deutschland - ein Wintermärchen

Answer 7

One who assumes the appearance of piety and virtue while destitute of true religion.

Answer 8

One who preaches to others about how they should live their lives, what's right and what's wrong, and not following their own advice. Also one who claims to "teach" a loving, caring God and religion but yet also teaches to hate and to discriminate "sins" and "sinners", basically one who teaches "thou shall not judge thy neighbor" (but does so anyways).

Answer 9

Someone who preaches one thing but practices another.

Answer 10

Liberal.