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

And it is to the genius of Israel that we owe that rigorously logical interpretation of the axiomata media of legalism, which issued in due season in Pharisaism.

From What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular by Holmes, Edmond

He is independent without self-assertion, courageous without bravado, conscientious without Pharisaism.

From Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 by Blaine, James Gillespie

In his maturer thought the great apostle seems to have escaped the limitations of his early Pharisaism.

From The New Theology by Campbell, R. J. (Reginald John)