pharisaism
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Define meritricious; prognathic; banal; vulpine; camaraderie; vilification; ennui; quixotic; naïve; pharisaism.
From Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day by Benjamin A. Heydrick
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 Joseph Furphy
There was a blaze of brutal pharisaism that put a bar-sinister across any claim to gentlemanliness on the part of the majority.
From Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View by Price Collier
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 James Allen
Was this change wrought by the ascetic habits of a pharisaism which is not piety any more than avarice is economy?
From A Second Home by Honoré de Balzac
