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Definition of Pharisees
1. pharisee [n] - See also: pharisee
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pharisees
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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