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noun - a self-righteous or sanctimonious person
noun - a member of an ancient Jewish sect noted for strict obedience to Jewish traditions
A hypocritically self-righteous person.
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| a member of an ancient Jewish sect, distinguished by strict observance of the traditional and written law, and commonly held to have pretensions to superior sanctity. |
| A member of an ancient Jewish sect that emphasized strict interpretation and observance of the Mosaic law in both its oral and written form. |
| A hypocritically self-righteous person. |
| a member of an ancient Jewish sect noted for strict obedience to Jewish traditions |
| a self-righteous or sanctimonious person |
| a member of an ancient group of Jews, written about in the Bible, who believed in obeying religious laws very carefully and separated themselves from the ordinary people |
| a person who thinks they are very religious, but who does not care about others |
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The Pharisees () were at various times a political party, a social movement, and a school of thought in the Holy Land during the time of Second Temple Judaism. After the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE, Pharisaic beliefs became the foundational, liturgical and ritualistic basis for Rabbinic Judaism. * Conflicts between Pharisees and Sadducees took place in the context of much broader and longstanding social and religious conflicts among Jews, made worse by the Roman conquest. Another conflict was cultural, between those who favored Hellenization (the Sadducees) and those who resisted it (the Pharisees). A third was juridico-religious, between those who emphasized the importance of the Second Temple with its rites and services, and those who emphasized the importance of other Mosaic Laws. A fourth point of conflict, specifically religious, involved different interpretations of the Torah and how to apply it to current Jewish life, with Sadducees recognizing only the Written Torah |