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Pharisaical

//faɹɪˈseɪk(ə)l// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or pertaining to the Pharisees.
  2. 2
    Emphasizing the observance of ritual or practice over the meaning; self-righteous, hypocritical.

    "Perhaps no man in the world had less than Douglas the pharisaical precision of Methodism; he was totally averse to their sudden and evanescent flights of enthusiasm, their frantic ravings of intemperate zeal in devotion, as if invoking a vindictive and implacable Deity;[…]"

Adjective
  1. 1
    excessively or hypocritically pious wordnet

Etymology

From Late Latin Pharisaicus + -al.

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