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Synonyms for pharisaic


Grammar : Adj
Spell : far-uh-sey-ik or far-uh-sey-i-kuh l
Phonetic Transcription : ˌfær əˈseɪ ɪk or ˌfær əˈseɪ ɪ kəl

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Définition of pharisaic

Origin :
  • 1610s, from Church Latin pharisaicus, from Greek pharisaikos, from pharisaios (see Pharisee). Related: Pharisaical (1530s).
  • adj hypocritical
Example sentences :
  • Yet there was nothing Pharisaic about his speech or bearing.
  • Extract from : « The Bishop's Secret » by Fergus Hume
  • The answer struck at the principle of the Pharisaic character.
  • Extract from : « The Gospel of St. John » by Frederick Denison Maurice
  • Of course there could not be, in the nature of things, a Pharisaic Christology.
  • Extract from : « Pharisaism, Its Aim And Its Method » by R. Travers Herford
  • For the radicalism of the time was exclusively, we may say, pharisaic.
  • Extract from : « The Cradle of the Christ » by Octavius Brooks Frothingham
  • The moral rules of the Pharisaic Rabbis should also be included.
  • Extract from : « History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) » by Adolph Harnack
  • They carried the pharisaic demand for separateness to the extreme of asceticism.
  • Extract from : « The Life of Jesus of Nazareth » by Rush Rhees
  • It has meshes far finer than any that Pharisaic ingenuity could weave.
  • Extract from : « The Teaching of Jesus » by George Jackson
  • This Pharisaic panoply in which Tammany was clad, as in a coat of mail, was no small element of its strength.
  • Extract from : « Satan's Invisible World Displayed or, Despairing Democracy » by W. T. Stead
  • The most unscrupulous government does not (p. 39) usually cover up its tyranny and aggressions by pharisaic mummeries.
  • Extract from : « The Second War with England, Vol. 1 of 2 » by J. T. Headley.
  • He lived once in the heaven of reverence, faith, and love; he has gone from it into the hell of Pharisaic scorn and contempt.
  • Extract from : « Nineteenth Century Questions » by James Freeman Clarke
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