pharisaism

Example Sentences

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For Christy was the typical product of conventionality and pharisaism.

From The Loom of Youth by Waugh, Alec

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

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

From Progress and History by Marvin, Francis Sydney

Frederick Robertson of Brighton once said, "Hate hypocrisy, hate cant, hate intolerance, hate oppression, hate injustice, hate pharisaism, hate them as Christ hated them, with a deep, living, Godlike hatred."

From General Gordon A Christian Hero by Churchill, Seton

The law of force is honest paganism, but this covering up of the world's foulness with scum—that is nauseating pharisaism.

From Victory out of Ruin by Maclean, Norman