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canting

ADJ ที่ ไม่จริงใจ  insincere hypocritical ti-mai-jing-jai

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CANTING

ppr. 1. Throwing with a sudden jerk; tossing.
2. Speaking with a whine or song-like tone.

 

CANTINGLY

adv. With a cant.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

CANTING

CANTING Cant "ing, a.

 

Defn: Speaking in a whining tone of voice; using technical or religious terms affectedly; affectedly pious; as, a canting rogue; a canting tone. - Cant "ing *ly, adv. -- Cant "ing *ness, n. Canting arms, Canting heraldry (Her. ), bearings in the nature of a rebus alluding to the name of the bearer. Thus, the Castletons bear three castles, and Pope Adrian IV. (Nicholas Breakspeare ) bore a broken spear.

 

CANTING

CANTING Cant "ing, n.

 

Defn: The use of cant; hypocrisy.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

canting arms

cant ing arms ▶plural noun Heraldry arms containing an allusion to the name of the bearer. ORIGIN early 17th cent.: canting from cant 1, in the obsolete sense ‘speak, say (in a particular way ).’

 

Oxford Dictionary

canting arms

cant |ing arms ▶plural noun Heraldry arms containing an allusion to the name of the bearer. ORIGIN early 17th cent.: canting from cant 1, in the obsolete sense ‘speak, say (in a particular way )’.

 

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