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 Definitions of Tartuffe  [ɑrˈtʊf, -ˈtuf]  

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Definition of 'Tartuffe' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) Tartuffe
(often l.c.) a hypocritical pretender to piety.

Etymology:  (after the title character in a Molière play (1664))

Definition of 'Tartuffe' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) Tartuffe, Tartufe
a hypocrite who pretends to religious piety (after the protagonist in a play by Moliere)


Definition of 'Tartuffe' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) Tartuffe
alt. of Tartufe


Definitions of 'Tartuffe' The Nuttall Encyclopedia 

1.  Tartuffe
a knave, a creation of Molière's, who makes a cloak of religion to cover his knaveries, and the name of the play in which the character appears, Molière's greatest.



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