pharisaism

Example Sentences

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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 Balzac, Honoré de

For Christy was the typical product of conventionality and pharisaism.

From The Loom of Youth by Waugh, Alec

Newspapers teemed with abuse of superstition and pharisaism, and praise of this wholesome, moral, and ‘truly English’ sport. 

From The Three Brides by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

The last vestige of that just, instinctive pharisaism which clothes an unstained youth had dropped from her.

From The Testing of Diana Mallory by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

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

From Progress and History by Marvin, Francis Sydney