pharisaism

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

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

It was not addressed to Pharisees, although it is a severe exposure of the hypocrisy and self-deception of Pharisaism of every kind.

From The Gospel of Luke, An Exposition by Erdman, Charles Rosenbury

Pharisaism, then as now, was ready to stone the prophet of freedom.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

Some have commended them on the ground that they have exposed religious pretence and Pharisaism.

From Robert Burns by Shairp, John Campbell