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

In spite of all its exclusiveness the desire for making proselytes, especially in the Diaspora, was in the blood of Pharisaism.

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

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 within the Church, far more than assaults from without, has destroyed the old-time influence of theology over the popular mind; while the same results are clearly manifest in our political fabric.

From The Arena Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891 by Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange)