Definitions for pharisees

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pharisees Phar·i·see

Spelling: [far-uh-see]

IPA: /ˈfær əˌsi/

Pharisees is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 474 anagrams from letters in pharisees (aeehiprss).

Definitions for pharisees

noun

1. a member of a Jewish sect that flourished during the 1st century b.c. and 1st century a.d. and that differed from the Sadducees chiefly in its strict observance of religious ceremonies and practices, adherence to oral laws and traditions, and belief in an afterlife and the coming of a Messiah.
2. (lowercase) a sanctimonious, self-righteous, or hypocritical person.

Origin of pharisees

before 900; Middle English Pharise, Farise, Old English Farīsēus Late Latin Pharīsēus, variant of Pharīsaeus Greek Pharīsaîos Aramaic pərīshayyā, plural of pərīshā literally, separated

Examples for pharisees

When the sceptical Sadducees and the pharisees, sought a sign it was to try him, can he do it?

This latter group shortly came to be known as the pharisees.

The Hasmonean monarchs who got themselves disliked by the pharisees must therefore be villains.

Look at our charities—are we pharisees or are we hypocrites?

pharisees and scribes are reduced stock villains with caricatured Jewish features.

But were not the Scribes and pharisees in many things ignorant and unsound?

That family soon fell afoul of the leading religious authorities of their day, the people known to history as the pharisees.

The pharisees had need to keep alliance with the temporal powers.

The pharisees asked: "Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath days?"

The pharisees join with the Saducees in opposition to the Church.