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

Her attitude of certainty and conviction in the doctrines which she championed was branded and denounced as "intolerance," "bigotry," "narrow-mindedness," "exclusiveness," "aloofness," "pride," "Pharisaism," etc.

From American Lutheranism Volume 2: The United Lutheran Church (General Synod, General Council, United Synod in the South) by Bente, F. (Friedrich)

Pharisaism, then as now, was ready to stone the prophet of freedom.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

Pharisaism lives in the streets: it does not dwell in the inner chambers of our mystic life.

From My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year by Jowett, John Henry