pharisaism

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His smirking and somewhat subversive accommodation to this Pharisaism is to emphasize the ways in which Black English is more complex than Standard English.

From The New Yorker • May 8, 2017

Emphasis on visible authority and external practices had brought the Roman Catholic Church, they thought, to Pharisaism and travesty; they hoped to avoid the same pitfall by stressing an inward spirituality.

From Time Magazine Archive

And it is to the genius of Israel that we owe that rigorously logical interpretation of the axiomata media of legalism, which issued in due season in Pharisaism.

From What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular by Holmes, Edmond

The reaction of superstition, it has been said, is to infidelity; and the reaction from Pharisaism was to Sadduceeism.

From John the Baptist by Meyer, F. B. (Frederick Brotherton)

Moreover the type of doctrine is still less like the Pharisaism of the synagogue than the "philosophy and vain deceit" rebuked by Paul at Coloss�.

From The Making of the New Testament by Bacon, Benjamin Wisner