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Pharisee Definition


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Pharisee
noun Pharisees
    1. A member of the Pharisees, an ancient Jewish sect whose strict interpretation of the Mosaic law led to an obsessive concern with the rules covering the details of everyday life.
    2. derog
      Anyone more careful of the outward forms than of the spirit of religion.
    3. derog
      A self-righteous or hypocritical person.
Derivative: Pharisaic
adj
    Etymology: Anglo-Saxon: from Greek pharisaios, from Hebrew parush separated.



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