formalistic
English edit
Etymology edit
Adjective edit
formalistic (comparative more formalistic, superlative most formalistic)
- Formalist.
- 2006 February 28, YM, “Rabbi Wein on Robert Auman and parshas Vayishlach”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated[1] (Usenet):
- By 1900, many of the young who grew up in the Hirschian community had dropped out and even among those who remained committed, their religious observance was rather formalistic and arid.
Translations edit
formalist — see formalist
Further reading edit
- “formalistic”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.