pharisaism

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The last vestige of that just, instinctive pharisaism which clothes an unstained youth had dropped from her.

From The Testing of Diana Mallory by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

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

But with their customary scrupulousness, their dread of pharisaism, they admit that Switzerland is still far from being a true democracy.

From The Forerunners by Rolland, Romain

For Christy was the typical product of conventionality and pharisaism.

From The Loom of Youth by Waugh, Alec

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 Furphy, Joseph