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pharisaical
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What does pharisaical mean?
adjective
- Of or pertaining to the Pharisees.
- Emphasizing the observance of ritual or practice over the meaning; self-righteous, hypocritical.
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He did not forgive, but made it his mission to denounce the pharisaical attitude of society.
“Because she told me all that passed,” said Oak, with a pharisaical sense that he was not as other shearers in this matter.
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They attend with Pharisaical strictness to the outward forms of religion, and at the same time neglect the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith.
The mollahs, with their flowing robes, and huge white turbans, likewise form no inconsiderable proportion of the moving throng; they are almost without exception scrupulously neat and clean in appearance, and their priestly costume and Pharisaical deportment gives them a certain air of stateliness.
“Did God call me on account of my holy life? Or on account of my pharisaical religion? Or on account of my prayers, fastings, and works? Never. Well, then, it is certain God did not call me on account of my blasphemies, persecutions, oppressions. What prompted Him to call me? His grace alone.”