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02-25-2015, 01:21 PM
\ kant \ , verb, noun;
1.
To talk hypocritically.
2.
To speak in the whining or singsong tone of a beggar; beg.
noun: 1.
Insincere, especially conventional expressions of enthusiasm for high ideals, goodness, or piety.
2.
The private language of the underworld.
3.
The phraseology peculiar to a particular class, party, profession, etc.
4.
Whining or singsong speech, especially of beggars.
Quotes:
I don't deny but that may sooner teach a Man to Cant and talk Gibberish, or use fair, smooth, formal Phrases, and religious Words.
-- Richard Ward and Sarah Hutton, The Life of Henry More
A philanthropist by nature, he is not one of those dreamers who hate all that will not aid their one pet scheme, and cant about a general brotherhood which exempts them from particular charity.
-- Robert Alfred Vaughan, Hours with the Mystics
Origin:
Cant comes from the same Latin word as chant , the Latin word for song, cantus . The sense of "insincere talk" arose in the early 1700s.
1.
To talk hypocritically.
2.
To speak in the whining or singsong tone of a beggar; beg.
noun: 1.
Insincere, especially conventional expressions of enthusiasm for high ideals, goodness, or piety.
2.
The private language of the underworld.
3.
The phraseology peculiar to a particular class, party, profession, etc.
4.
Whining or singsong speech, especially of beggars.
Quotes:
I don't deny but that may sooner teach a Man to Cant and talk Gibberish, or use fair, smooth, formal Phrases, and religious Words.
-- Richard Ward and Sarah Hutton, The Life of Henry More
A philanthropist by nature, he is not one of those dreamers who hate all that will not aid their one pet scheme, and cant about a general brotherhood which exempts them from particular charity.
-- Robert Alfred Vaughan, Hours with the Mystics
Origin:
Cant comes from the same Latin word as chant , the Latin word for song, cantus . The sense of "insincere talk" arose in the early 1700s.