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Catharist

One aiming at or pretending to a greater purity of like than others about him; -- applied to persons of various sects. See Albigenses.

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Affected p. p. & a. · 78% connection

Given to false show; assuming or pretending to possess what is not natural or real.

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Aggrandize verb · 78% connection

To make great or greater in power, rank, honor, or wealth; -- applied to persons, countries, etc.

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Albigensian adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to the Albigenses.

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Apostolic noun · 78% connection

A member of one of certain ascetic sects which at various times professed to imitate the practice of the apostles.

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Collineation noun · 78% connection

The act of aiming at, or directing in a line with, a fixed object.

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Consequential adjective · 78% connection

Assuming or exhibiting an air of consequence; pretending to importance; pompous; self-important; as, a consequential man. See Conseque…

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Cultrivorous adjective · 78% connection

Devouring knives; swallowing, or pretending to swallow, knives; -- applied to persons who have swallowed, or have seemed to swallow, k…

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Deadly adjective · 78% connection

Aiming or willing to destroy; implacable; desperately hostile; flagitious; as, deadly enemies.

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Direction noun · 78% connection

The act of directing, of aiming, regulating, guiding, or ordering; guidance; management; superintendence; administration; as, the dire…

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Dissimulate adjective · 78% connection

Feigning; simulating; pretending.

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Duplicity noun · 78% connection

Doubleness of heart or speech; insincerity; a sustained form of deception which consists in entertaining or pretending to entertain on…

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Effort noun · 78% connection

An exertion of strength or power, whether physical or mental, in performing an act or aiming at an object; more or less strenuous ende…

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Equal adjective · 78% connection

Agreeing in quantity, size, quality, degree, value, etc.; having the same magnitude, the same value, the same degree, etc.; -- applied…

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Fine superl. · 78% connection

Aiming at show or effect; loaded with ornament; overdressed or overdecorated; showy.

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Fissiparity noun · 78% connection

the tendency to break into parts; "the fissiparity of religious sects"

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Indelicacy noun · 78% connection

The quality of being indelicate; want of delicacy, or of a nice sense of, or regard for, purity, propriety, or refinement in manners,…

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Knight banneret unknown · 78% connection

A knight who carried a banner, who possessed fiefs to a greater amount than the knight bachelor, and who was obliged to serve in war w…

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Malingerer noun · 78% connection

In the army, a soldier who feigns himself sick, or who induces or protracts an illness, in order to avoid doing his duty; hence, in ge…

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