Crossword-Solution: TARTUFFES 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 15

They, too, maintain themselves by Terror; only, like so many Tartuffes, they are not disposed to act openly as executioners.

They had made themselves very marketable; and the puritans, changing their character with the times, from Elizabeth to Charles the First, were often the _Tartuffes_ of the stage.[152] But when they became the government itself, in 1642, all the theatres were suppressed, because "stage-plaies do not suit with seasons of humiliation; but fasting and praying have been found very effectual." This was but a mild cant, and the suppression, at first, was only to be temporary.

His morality was not that of pharasaical tartuffes, nor of prudish knickerbockers, who with wide phylacteries, sit in the high places to be seen of men.

Let religious morality then, if it can, touch the heart of the Tartuffes, the Cæsars, the conquerors of Algeria, the sinecurists, the monopolists, etc.

This man, Picart by name--one of that extensive class the 'tristes obsc[oe]ni,' of whom the Angelos and Tartuffes[126] are representatives--succeeded to the vacant office of directing confessor to the nuns of Louviers; and at once embraced the opportunities of the confessional.