Holding vs Hypocrisy - What's the difference?
holding | hypocrisy |
Something that one owns, especially stocks and bonds.
* 2009 , The Economist,
A determination of law made by a court.
A tenure; a farm or other estate held of another.
* 1596 , , V. i. 3:
(obsolete) That which holds, binds, or influences.
(obsolete) Logic; consistency.
* 1598 , , IV. ii. 27:
(obsolete) The burden or chorus of a song.
* 1598 , , II. vii. 109:
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The claim or pretense of having]] beliefs, standards, qualities, [[behaviour, behaviours, virtues, motivations, etc. which one does not actually have.
The practice of engaging in the same behaviour or activity for which one criticises another; moral self-contradiction whereby the behavior of one or more people their own claimed or implied possession of certain beliefs, standards or virtues.
An instance of either or both of the above.
As nouns the difference between holding and hypocrisy
is that holding is something that one owns, especially stocks and bonds while hypocrisy is the claim or pretense of holding beliefs, feelings, standards, qualities, opinions, virtues or motivations that one does not actually possess.As a verb holding
is (hold).holding
English
Noun
(wikipedia holding) (en noun)Law and order in Italy: Trouble with figures
- Italy's right-wing prime minister was about to cure his biggest headache by selling the state's holding in a troubled airline, Alitalia.
- Take again / From this my hand, as holding of the Pope / Your sovereign greatness and authority.
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- This has no holding , / To swear by him whom I protest to love / That I will work against him.
- Make battery to our ears with the loud music; / The while I'll place you; then the boy shall sing. / The holding every man shall beat as loud / As his strong sides can volley.
