pharisaism

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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

It might be Pharisaism, but if we look in the direction of Judaism, it is most natural that we should think of a Judaism resembling that of the Essenes.

From The Books of the New Testament by Pullan, Leighton

Thus, according to popular Pharisaism, God never remitted a debt until He was paid in full, and so long as it was paid it mattered not by whom.

From St. Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians A Practical Exposition by Gore, Charles

In spite of all its exclusiveness the desire for making proselytes, especially in the Diaspora, was in the blood of Pharisaism.

From History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) by Buchanan, Neil