Meaning of pharisaical | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Of or pertaining to the Pharisees.
2. Emphasizing the observance of ritual or practice over the meaning; self-righteous, hypocritical.

Examples

“Perhaps no man in the world had less than Douglas the pharisaical precision of Methodism; he was totally averse to their sudden and evanescent flights of enthusiasm, their frantic ravings of intemperate zeal in devotion, as if invoking a vindictive and implacable Deity;[…]”

“Thus Aurobindo Ghose stated that the puritanical, pharisaical British conquered in the name of liberty and usurped under the cloak of altruism.”

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