pharisaism
Example Sentences
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There has been a great deal of what I have called philosophic pharisaism.
From Progress and History by Francis Sydney Marvin
But pharisaism diagnosed the disease of the age differently, and insisted that the observance of the Law was the best prophylactic against disease.
From Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery by Robert Means Lawrence
The last vestige of that just, instinctive pharisaism which clothes an unstained youth had dropped from her.
From The Testing of Diana Mallory by Mrs. Humphry Ward
To do the former, and not to do the latter, is pharisaism and hypocrisy, whereas the latter includes the former.
From The Way of Peace by James Allen
Zola has several phases; one of them, I admit, blue as heaven's own tinct; but Holmes has only one phase, namely, pharisaism.
From Such Is Life by Joseph Furphy
