Definition of Pharisees

1. Noun. (plural of Pharisee) ¹

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Definition of Pharisees

1. pharisee [n] - See also: pharisee

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pharisees

pharaohs
pharaonic
pharaonically
pharate
phare
phares
pharisaic
pharisaical
pharisaically
pharisaicalness
pharisaism
pharisaisms
pharisean
phariseeism
phariseeisms
pharisees (current term)
pharm
pharma
pharmacal
pharmaceutic
pharmaceutic aid
pharmaceutical
pharmaceutical biology
pharmaceutical chemist
pharmaceutical chemistry
pharmaceutical company
pharmaceutical grade
pharmaceutical preparations
pharmaceutical services
pharmaceutical solutions

Literary usage of Pharisees

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"We had been accustomed to regard the pharisees of the time in question as a sect, ... We are now told that the pharisees were the great body of the nation ..."

2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"Hence the scribes are conceived as a class; the pharisees as a compact party, ... Occasionally in the addresses of Jesus to the scribes and pharisees there ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Then follows the terrible arraignment of the scribes and pharisees for their hypocrisy, their rapacity, and their blindness (ibid., 13-36). ..."

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