HRÆSNI
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f. [hrós], vanity, self-esteem, self-glorification, Stj. 644; sjálfhól ok h., Fms. ii. 267, Bs. ii. 16, Barl. 51, Róm. 267; göra e-t til hræsni, Fs. 88; fyrir tíma h., ‘pro vanâ humanae laudis jactantiâ,’ Hom. 22; always so in old writers, but at the time of the Reformation it assumed the sense of
II. hypocrisy (ὑπόκρισις of the N. T.), and is constantly with its compds used so in the N. T., Vídal., Pass., etc.