pharisaism

Example Sentences

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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

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

His terrible denunciation and enumeration of evil indicate a very lax morality in every quarter, added to hypocrisy and pharisaism.

From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 02 Jewish Heroes and Prophets by Lord, John

These expressions of unctuous pharisaism are coldly received by the French, who ask no favours but claim justice.

From The Tragedy of St. Helena by Runciman, Walter

Was this change wrought by the ascetic habits of a pharisaism which is not piety any more than avarice is economy?

From A Second Home by Balzac, Honoré de