Pharisee Definition

fărĭ-sē
noun
A member of an ancient Jewish group that carefully observed the written law but also accepted the oral, or traditional, law, believed that religious practices should be followed by everyone including high priests, etc.
Webster's New World
A pharisaic person.
Webster's New World
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Noun

Singular:
pharisee
Plural:
pharisees

Origin of Pharisee

  • Middle English pharise from Old English fariseus and from Old French pharise both from Late Latin pharīsaeus from Greek pharīsaios from Aramaic pərišayyā pl. of pəriš separate from pəraš to separate prš in Semitic roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Pharisee Sentence Examples

  • Our author was a Pharisee of the straitest sect.

  • Being a Pharisee he faced the facts of Herod's power and warned the tribunal of the event, just as later he counselled the people to receive him, saying that for their sins they could not escape him.

  • Pollio the Pharisee and Sameas his disciple were in special honour with him, Josephus says, when he re-entered Jerusalem and put to death the leaders of the faction of Antigonus.

  • From the sequel it appears that the prophecy was uttered by one Pharisee only, and that it was in no way endorsed by the party.

  • Being a Pharisee, he sometimes introduces traditions of the Elders, which are either inferences from, or embroideries of, the biblical narrative.

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