pharisaic

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The author almost seems to be saying that style and historical relevance trump craft, which strikes me as TW Higginson-pharisaic, the same old mistake.

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, or characteristic of the Pharisees.
  2. adjective Hypocritically self-righteous and condemnatory.

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  • Next thing you know christians are going to find out that they are worshiping a practicing pharisaic jew who claimed to be the jewish messiah. —  digg.com: Stories / Popular
  • If we feel for the elder son is it because of an unwanted suspicion that under our veneer of goodness lurks a similar pharisaic persona? —  CathNews
  • The author almost seems to be saying that style and historical relevance trump craft, which strikes me as TW Higginson-pharisaic, the same old mistake. —  PoetryFoundation.org
  • 28-34). For the pharisaic scholars this was a favorite problem. —  The Life of Jesus of Nazareth
  • Mr. S. is said to have been a shrewd and sensible man, of strict morals and unbending integrity; but withal stern and inflexible in disposition, pharisaic, and a bigoted churchman. —  Religion in Earnest A Memorial of Mrs. Mary Lyth, of York
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  1. = French pharisaïque = Spanish Italian farisaico = Portuguese pharisaico, from Late Latin Pharisaïcus, from Middle Greek for Greek Φαρισαῑκός, from Φαρισαῑος, Pharisee: see Pharisee.
 

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