pharisaical
形容词 adj.
英 /faɹɪˈseɪk(ə)l/
英文释义
形容词 adj.
- Of or pertaining to the Pharisees.
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Emphasizing the observance of ritual or practice over the meaning; self-righteous, hypocritical.
— Perhaps no man in the world had less than Douglas the pharisaical precision of Methodism; he was totally averse to their sudden and evanescent flights of enthusiasm, their frantic ravings of intemperate zeal in devotion, as if invoking a vindictive and implacable Deity;[…]
词汇关系
词源
From Late Latin Pharisaicus + -al.
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