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

Above all, she says, nuns must learn to eschew Pharisaism, the better-than-thou frame of mind.

From Women of Mediæval France Woman: in all ages and in all countries Vol. 5 (of 10) by Butler, Pierce

He accused them stoutly of wilful blindness, of cowardice, of bullying, of Pharisaism, and of other sins.

From Clayhanger by Bennett, Arnold

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