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Pharisaic [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Pharisaical [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Of or pertaining to the Pharisees; resembling the Pharisees.

2. Addicted to external forms and ceremonies; making a show of religion without the spirit of it; ceremonial; formal; hypocritical; self-righteous.

Pharisaicalness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Devotion to external rites and ceremonies; external show of religion without the spirit of it.

Pharisaicical [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Pertaining to the Pharisees; resembling the Pharisees, a sect among the Jews, distinguished by their zeal for the traditions of the elders, and by their exact observance of these traditions and the ritual law. Hence pharisaic denotes addicted to external forms and ceremonies; making a show of religion without the spirit of it; as pharisaic holiness.