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

He is independent without self-assertion, courageous without bravado, conscientious without Pharisaism.

From Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 by Blaine, James Gillespie

The crushing of the nationalistic rebellion, the temporary suppression of the war-party, the Zealots, only strengthened and promoted Pharisaism, and the Dispersion was scarcely affected by the losses of the war.

From The Making of the New Testament by Bacon, Benjamin Wisner

But what is this spirit but, for good or for evil, the spirit of Pharisaism under a wholly different dress?

From St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans, Vol. I A Practical Exposition by Gore, Charles