sepulcher : Idioms & Phrases


A whited sepulcher

  • . Fig.: Any person who is fair outwardly but unclean or vile within. See Matt. xxiii.27.
Webster 1913

holy sepulcher

  • noun the sepulcher in which Christ's body lay between burial and resurrection
    Holy Sepulchre.
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whited sepulcher

  • noun a person who is inwardly evil but outwardly professes to be virtuous
    whited sepulchre.
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