Sadducee Definition

săjə-sē, sădyə-
noun
A member of an ancient Jewish party, representing the ruling hierarchy, that accepted only the written law and rejected the oral, or traditional, law.
Webster's New World

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Noun

Singular:
Sadducee
Plural:
sadducees

Origin of Sadducee

  • Middle English Saducee from Old English Sadducēas Sadducees from Late Latin Sadducaeī from Greek Saddoukaioi from Mishnaic Hebrew ṭədûqî after ṭādôq , Zadok, high priest in the time of David and Solomon from ṭādôq just, righteous from ṭādaq to be just ṭdq in Semitic roots

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

Sadducee Sentence Examples

  • With the apparent intention of restoring order in Jerusalem, he assembled the Sanhedrin, and being, as a Sadducee, cruel in the matter of penalties, secured the condemnation of certain lawbreakers to death by stoning.

  • As for the author, he was no Essene, for he recognizes animal sacrifices and cherishes the Messianic hope; he was not a Sadducee, for he looks forward to the establishment of the Messianic kingdom (x.); nor a Zealot, for the quietistic ideal is upheld (ix.), and the kingdom is established by God Himself (x.).

  • This national feeling, claiming a leader against the Romans as well as deliverance from the Sadducee aristocracy, again sets the idea of the kingship rather than that of resurrection and individual retribution in the central place.

  • He was not a Sadducee, for he looks forward to the establishment of the Messianic Kingdom (x.).

  • Most authorities believe that he was a Gnostic; but while it is certain that he was not a Christian, it is possible that he was simply a Sadducee, and thus an opponent not of Judaism but of Pharisaism.

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