英语词汇“pharisaisms”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词

pharisaisms

释义

Pharisee /farˈi-sē/

noun

A member of an ancient Jewish sect, a lay democratic party among the Jews, whose legalistic interpretation of the Mosaic law led to an obsessive concern with the mass of rules covering the details of everyday life
Anyone more careful of the outward forms than of the spirit of religion, a formalist
A very self-righteous or hypocritical person

ORIGIN: OE phariseus, from LL pharisaeus, from Gr pharisaios, from Heb pārūsh separated

pharisāˈic or pharisāˈical adjective

pharisāˈically adverb

pharisāˈicalness noun

pharˈisāism noun

(also pharˈiseeism)

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