pharisee

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“Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a pharisee, the other a publican.”

From Caleb in the Country by Abbott, Jacob

This is genuine confidence in the Supreme Ruler, though, to be sure, it has little or no charms for the obstinate stoic, or the conceited pharisee.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14 by Kerr, Robert

I am distinctly aware, moreover, that the old quarrel of sinner and pharisee has something to do with the matter.

From Essays in Radical Empiricism by James, William

His father was a Jew, a pharisee, and a man of respectable social position.

From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 02 Jewish Heroes and Prophets by Lord, John

"That's all very well, Micky," Dick had replied with a remonstrating bellow of a laugh, "but I'm not enough of a pharisee for that, you know, for I'm no total abstainer myself."

From The Lash by Lyman, Olin L.