Sănct'i-mo-ny, n.

(50), n. [Lat. sanctimonia, from sanctus, holy; O. Fr. sanctimonie, Sp. & It. sanctimonia.] Holiness; devoutness; scrupulous austerity; sanctity; especially, artificial saintliness; assumed or pretended holiness; hypocritical devoutness.

Her pretense is a pilgrimage; which holy undertaking, with most austere sanctimony, she accomplished. Shak.