Cant [ Language & Speech ]
… of thieves but then was used to criticise an excessive use of ready-made phrases. Accusations of ‘cant’, i.e. of hypocrisy, flourished in a century that saw the development of new models of sociability relying on fashion and informality as well as of emotional preaching. Concepts > Language & Speech Keywords Controversy Conversation Hypocrisy Rhetoric Nowadays, ‘cant’ is used in English to refer to professional jargons, but the word was more widely … who owns a brothel. Many publications ridiculing the ‘cant’ of Methodists and their excessive moral preoccupations and hypocrisy appeared in the following decade. 5 In 1769, for instance, Isaac Bickerstaffe published a new adaptation of …
Controversy | Conversation | Hypocrisy | Rhetoric
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