pharisaic
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To appear well in the opinion of others was the aim of pharisaic conduct.
From Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics by Alexander, Archibald B. C.
The historian, however, must put aside these rather pharisaic prejudices, and give Seneca the position as a moral teacher which his writings have won in ages not less earnest than ours.
From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Dill, Samuel
That he was not following a pharisaic leading appears in the question put to him by the Pharisees, "Why, then, baptizest thou?"
From The Life of Jesus of Nazareth by Rhees, Rush
"Standing in the Lord," in remembrance and in use of their vital union with Him, they would be armed alike against the pharisaic and the antinomian heresy.
From Philippian Studies Lessons in Faith and Love from St. Paul's Epistle to the Philippians by Moule, H. C. G. (Handley Carr Glyn)
In the man looking down on Marsham not a tinge of pharisaic condemnation mingled with the strange clearness of his judgment.
From The Testing of Diana Mallory by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
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