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To: 2Trievers
This use of the word "hypocrite" is poor grammer, I think. What is really meant is that people sometimes change their minds. That is not hypocrite means.

My Websters Comrehensive Dictionary, International Edition, defines hypocrite as one who acts a false part or makes false professions. The Greeks called actors "hypokrites".

Hypocisy is defined as the feigning to be what one is not; extreme insincerity; dissimulation.

All this use of the word hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
21 posted on 07/17/2002 4:42:22 AM PDT by jimtorr
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To: jimtorr
defines hypocrite as one who acts a false part or makes false professions

To some, nay many, that is called finesse.

27 posted on 07/17/2002 5:37:37 AM PDT by MosesKnows
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