The rupture being thus complete, it was right that the "wretched hypocrite" should answer ban with ban, royal denunciation with sublime scorn.

He had ill-deserved, however, the title of hypocrite, he said.

When the friend of government, he had warned them that by their complicated and perpetual persecutions they were twisting the rope of their own ruin.

Was that hypocrisy?
Since becoming their enemy, there had likewise been little hypocrisy found in him--unless it were hypocrisy to make open war upon government, to take their cities, to expel their armies from the country.
The proscribed rebel, towering to a moral and even social superiority over the man who affected to be his master by right divine, swept down upon his antagonist with crushing effect.

He repudiated the idea of a king in the Netherlands.