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- noun Alternative form of
Sadduceeism .
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Examples
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More and Glanvil were faithful sons of the Church; and if the persecution of witches was especially rife during the ascendency of the Puritans, it was because they happened to be in power while there was a reaction against Sadducism.
Among My Books First Series James Russell Lowell 1855
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Royal Society, "may burlesque these things; but when hundreds of the most sober people, in a country where they have as much mother wit, certainly, as the rest of mankind, _know them to be true_, nothing but the absurd and froward spirit of Sadducism can question them."
The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish James Fenimore Cooper 1820
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Either the leaven of Herod was not Sadducism, for the Sadducees say, There is no resurrection
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721
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Pharisaism was opposed to Christianity he set himself against it, and against all its traditions that were set up in competition with the law of God or in contradiction to the gospel of Christ, yet, as it was opposed to Sadducism, he adhered to it.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721
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A Witty Writer against _Sadducism_ has this Observation, That persons who never made any express Contract with _Apostate Spirits_, yet may Act strange Things by _Diabolick Aids_, which they procure by the use of those wicked
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