Definitions for Pharisaic

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Pharisaic Phar·i·sa·ic

Spelling: [far-uh-sey-ik or far-uh- Pharisaic is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 353 anagrams from letters in Pharisaic (aachiiprs).

Definitions for Pharisaic

adjective

1. of or relating to the Pharisees.
2. (lowercase) practicing or advocating strict observance of external forms and ceremonies of religion or conduct without regard to the spirit; self-righteous; hypocritical.

Origin of Pharisaic

1610-20; Late Latin Pharisaicus Greek Pharisaikós. See Pharisee, -ic

Examples for Pharisaic

It has meshes far finer than any that Pharisaic ingenuity could weave.

He lived once in the heaven of reverence, faith, and love; he has gone from it into the hell of Pharisaic scorn and contempt.

The answer struck at the principle of the Pharisaic character.

Yet there was nothing Pharisaic about his speech or bearing.

For the radicalism of the time was exclusively, we may say, Pharisaic.

Of course there could not be, in the nature of things, a Pharisaic Christology.

This Pharisaic panoply in which Tammany was clad, as in a coat of mail, was no small element of its strength.

The moral rules of the Pharisaic Rabbis should also be included.

The most unscrupulous government does not (p. 39) usually cover up its tyranny and aggressions by Pharisaic mummeries.

They carried the Pharisaic demand for separateness to the extreme of asceticism.