pharisaism

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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 Phillips, David Graham

But pharisaism diagnosed the disease of the age differently, and insisted that the observance of the Law was the best prophylactic against disease.

From Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery by Lawrence, Robert Means

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.

Zola has several phases; one of them, I admit, blue as heaven's own tinct; but Holmes has only one phase, namely, pharisaism.

From Such Is Life by Furphy, Joseph

Frederick Robertson of Brighton once said, "Hate hypocrisy, hate cant, hate intolerance, hate oppression, hate injustice, hate pharisaism, hate them as Christ hated them, with a deep, living, Godlike hatred."

From General Gordon A Christian Hero by Churchill, Seton