pharisaism

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

His smirking and somewhat subversive accommodation to this Pharisaism is to emphasize the ways in which Black English is more complex than Standard English.

From The New Yorker • May 8, 2017

Emphasis on visible authority and external practices had brought the Roman Catholic Church, they thought, to Pharisaism and travesty; they hoped to avoid the same pitfall by stressing an inward spirituality.

From Time Magazine Archive

Pharisaism, then as now, was ready to stone the prophet of freedom.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

There is an odour of Pharisaism in the British fox-hunter's denunciation of the bull fight on the score of cruelty to animals.

From The Story of Seville by Hartley, C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine)

Moreover the type of doctrine is still less like the Pharisaism of the synagogue than the "philosophy and vain deceit" rebuked by Paul at Coloss�.

From The Making of the New Testament by Bacon, Benjamin Wisner