Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as pharisaism.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun See pharisaism.

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Examples

  • I hope that you rest easy knowing your self-righteousness and Phariseeism is costing people their lives, you who call yourself pro-life, you who claim that we revel in the death and suffering of others.

    Think Progress » Chinese state press highlights China’s first public same-sex ‘marriage.’ 2010

  • The comments here have shown so much ignorance, so much bigotry, so much spite and malice, so much hypocrisy, so much Phariseeism....

    Today's Battle Zoe Brain 2008

  • It's their Phariseeism, their fundamental dishonesty, their hypocrisy, malice, hatred and "bearing false witness" that is repugnant to me.

    Contrast Zoe Brain 2008

  • Berlin, despite her strong devour of Phariseeism, Puritanism and Chauvinism in religion, manners and morals, is not a whit better than her neighbours.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • I have always hated Phariseeism - ie doing the outward motions of religion without having the heart - and thought it applied more to violent religious people or fundamentalists LOL and never thought it applied to me.

    perfectionism WENDEE HOLTCAMP 2006

  • I have always hated Phariseeism - ie doing the outward motions of religion without having the heart - and thought it applied more to violent religious people or fundamentalists LOL and never thought it applied to me.

    Archive 2006-05-01 WENDEE HOLTCAMP 2006

  • It was Lee Atwater's genius---Karl Rove is just Atwater's most able and shameless apprentice---to make Phariseeism the central tenet of contemporary conservativism.

    Annoy a Liberal. Drive like an idiot. 2005

  • It was Lee Atwater's genius---Karl Rove is just Atwater's most able and shameless apprentice---to make Phariseeism the central tenet of contemporary conservativism.

    Lance Mannion: 2005

  • If the older Halakah is to be considered as the product of the internal struggle between Phariseeism and Sadduceeism, the Halakah of Akiba must be conceived as the result of an external contest between Judaism on the one hand and Hellenism and Hellenistic Christianity on the other.

    Hertzberg & Yoffie On The Future of Zionism | Jewschool 2003

  • 'Non-intervention in the affairs of neighboring States is a high political virtue; but non-intervention does not mean passing by on the other side when your neighbor falls among thieves, or Phariseeism would recover it from

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Various

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