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

And it is in that special development of the Legal School which is known as Pharisaism that we shall look for a precedent for the conventional teaching of arithmetic in our elementary schools.

From What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular by Holmes, Edmond

It might be Pharisaism, but if we look in the direction of Judaism, it is most natural that we should think of a Judaism resembling that of the Essenes.

From The Books of the New Testament by Pullan, Leighton

Pharisaism had fulfilled its mission for the world when it produced this man.

From History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) by Buchanan, Neil