Definitions for Sadducee

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Sadducee Sad·du·cee

Spelling: [saj-uh-see, sad-yuh-]

IPA: /ˈsædʒ əˌsi, ˈsæd yə-/

Sadducee is a 8 letter English word.

You can make 176 anagrams from letters in Sadducee (acddeesu).

Definitions for Sadducee

noun

1. a member of a Palestinian sect, consisting mainly of priests and aristocrats, that flourished from the 1st century b.c. to the 1st century a.d. and differed from the Pharisees chiefly in its literal interpretation of the Bible, rejection of oral laws and traditions, and denial of an afterlife and the coming of the Messiah.

Origin of Sadducee

before 1000; Middle English sadducees (plural), Old English saddūcēas Late Latin saddūcaeī Greek saddoukaîoi Hebrew ṣədhūqī adherent of Zadok

Examples for Sadducee

Sadducee means "just," or "righteous," but rather with our idea of the world "moralist."

I will hope, though something of a Sadducee, that there is an angel in their hearts.

The Sadducee was the liberal easy-going man of the world, taking the world as he found it.

He had it republished, declaring that "he must be an obstinate Sadducee who doubted it."

I know but few less credulous than the relator, but he is no Sadducee.

The explanation lies, I think, in the fact that Caiaphas was a Sadducee.

It was the Sadducee who asked the Savior whose wife should the woman be who had seven husbands in this world.

How was it possible for a Sadducee, who believed in no resurrection, to see a miracle?

There was once a heathen Sadducee who said, "My right arm is my God!"

The doctrine of marriage until death, appears to be a Sadducee doctrine, for they denied the resurrection.