pharisaism

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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

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 came from the doorway a girl who was lifted above the pharisaism of clothes into the purer ether.

From Jewel Weed by Fisher, Harrison

His terrible denunciation and enumeration of evil indicate a very lax morality in every quarter, added to hypocrisy and pharisaism.

From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 02 Jewish Heroes and Prophets by Lord, John

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