pharisaism

Example Sentences

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Was this change wrought by the ascetic habits of a pharisaism which is not piety any more than avarice is economy?

From A Second Home by Balzac, Honoré de

There was a blaze of brutal pharisaism that put a bar-sinister across any claim to gentlemanliness on the part of the majority.

From Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View by Collier, Price

These expressions of unctuous pharisaism are coldly received by the French, who ask no favours but claim justice.

From The Tragedy of St. Helena by Runciman, Walter

Newspapers teemed with abuse of superstition and pharisaism, and praise of this wholesome, moral, and ‘truly English’ sport. 

From The Three Brides by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

Here she stopped short in the full swing of pharisaism, smiled at herself in dismal self- mockery.

From The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig; a Novel by Phillips, David Graham