What does “tartuffism” mean?

In the book of Nietzsche entitled “On the Genealogy of Morals” there is this sentence:

let us speak out this new demand: we need a critique of moral values, and the value of these values is for the first time to be called into question—and for this purpose a knowledge is necessary of the conditions and circumstances out of which these values grew, and under which they experienced their evolution and their distortion (morality as a result, as a symptom, as mask, as Tartuffism,

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Asked on March 26, 2021 in Meaning.
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Tartuffe was a scientific hypocrite and the principal character in Moliere’s Tartuffe .

Is
tartuffe
means hypocrite, or
a hypocritical pretender of excellence no nonsense?

Answered on March 26, 2021.
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