Talk:pharisaism

pharisaism and phariseeism

@DTLHS, the OED seems to treat phariseeism as a separate entry rather than a mere variant spelling of pharisaism. It notes that phariseeism comes from Pharisee +‎ -ism rather than from the Latin, though it does say that one occurrence in a 1585 work was a translation of Late Latin Pharisaismus. Should we also treat the two words separately? — SMUconlaw (talk) 21:00, 13 August 2016 (UTC)

Briefly looking at quotes for "phariseeism" it seems like it has the same 2 senses as "pharisaism". So I would keep it as an alt form entry (or we could use {{synonym of}}), but it can have its own etymology. DTLHS (talk) 22:58, 13 August 2016 (UTC)

And it seems to be usually capitalized- I've moved it to Phariseeism. DTLHS (talk) 23:04, 13 August 2016 (UTC)

OK. Yes, it seems to be a complete synonym of pharisaism. — SMUconlaw (talk) 06:48, 14 August 2016 (UTC)