pharisaic
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pharisaic (comparative more pharisaic, superlative most pharisaic)
- Of or pertaining to the Pharisees.
- (chiefly Christianity) Emphasizing the observance of ritual or practice over the meaning.
- 1912, George Bernard Shaw, “Act I”, in Pygmalion[1]:
- The church clock strikes the second quarter.
HIGGINS [Hearing in it the voice of God, rebuking him for his Pharisaic want of charity for the poor girl]
- Self-righteous.
- (of circumcision) Involving the total excision of the foreskin (posthetomy) in addition to milah and periah (typical of circumcision in modern Judaism and the USA).
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- pharisaic
- pharisaically
- pharisaicalness
- pharisaism
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of or pertaining to Pharisees
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of or pertaining to observance of ritual over meaning
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self-righteous
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