pharisaism

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Such frankness tends to destroy "sympathetic interest," to make delusion and illusion impossible; it gives cynicism and his brother, pharisaism, their opportunity to simper and to sneer.

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

He was a sublime, almost a diabolical opportunist I have often thought Benjamin Franklin, with his "honesty is the best policy," is another Machiavelli, only touched a little with the pharisaism of the Puritan.

From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 by Brann, William Cowper

For Christy was the typical product of conventionality and pharisaism.

From The Loom of Youth by Waugh, Alec

Frederick Robertson of Brighton once said, "Hate hypocrisy, hate cant, hate intolerance, hate oppression, hate injustice, hate pharisaism, hate them as Christ hated them, with a deep, living, Godlike hatred."

From General Gordon A Christian Hero by Churchill, Seton

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