<< `Perhaps in Gloranthan terms one could be a hypocrite if one claimed to
`adhere to a virtue such as honour or generosity but then failed to
`demonstrate that virtue, but that's a question of practice, not belief.
Perhaps it would make more sense to say that someone would be a hypocrite if they preach to others to Love their God and then didn't themselves, it is not so much claiming to adhere to a virtue and then not doing it, that is simply lying, telling others to be courageous and then running like a girl, that's hypocritical, IMO. >>
My dictionary claims that a hypocrite is 'a person who pretends to be what he is not'. No other definition is given, and the word root is apparently the Greek expression for 'one who plays a part'.
Trotsky
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