pharisaism
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But pharisaism diagnosed the disease of the age differently, and insisted that the observance of the Law was the best prophylactic against disease.
From Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery by Robert Means Lawrence
There is at least no superiority in their outlook, no pharisaism.
From Change in the Village by George Sturt
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 Romain Rolland
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 William Cowper Brann
There has been a great deal of what I have called philosophic pharisaism.
From Progress and History by Francis Sydney Marvin
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