pharisaism

Example Sentences

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There has been a great deal of what I have called philosophic pharisaism.

From Progress and History by Marvin, Francis Sydney

Here she stopped short in the full swing of pharisaism, smiled at herself in dismal self- mockery.

From The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig; a Novel by Phillips, David Graham

It has been a terrible blow to the pharisaism of which I have just spoken.

From Progress and History by Marvin, Francis Sydney

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

To do the former, and not to do the latter, is pharisaism and hypocrisy, whereas the latter includes the former.

From The Way of Peace by Allen, James