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Pharisaicalness

PHARISA'ICALNESS

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

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pharisaicalness

pharisaicalness

English

Noun

pharisaicalness (uncountable)

  1. (chiefly Christianity) The quality of being pharisaical.
    • 2014, Mark Sayers, Facing Leviathan: Leadership, Influence, and Creating in a Cultural Storm
      Romanticism fumes against what it sees as the puritanism and pharisaicalness of mainstream culture, while ultimately remaining blind to the fact that it's entirely dependent upon embodying the very thing it ridicules.

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