pharisaism
Example Sentences
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He strikes a blow at all pharisaism and all self-righteousness, and inculcates obedience to direct commands as the highest duty of man.
From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 02 Jewish Heroes and Prophets by John Lord
The last vestige of that just, instinctive pharisaism which clothes an unstained youth had dropped from her.
From The Testing of Diana Mallory by Mrs. Humphry Ward
Here she stopped short in the full swing of pharisaism, smiled at herself in dismal self- mockery.
From The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig; a Novel by David Graham Phillips
It has been a terrible blow to the pharisaism of which I have just spoken.
From Progress and History by Francis Sydney Marvin
Such frankness tends to destroy "sympathetic interest," to make delusion and illusion impossible; it gives cynicism and his brother, pharisaism, their opportunity to simper and to sneer.
From The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig; a Novel by David Graham Phillips
