| NOUN | person | pharisee | a self-righteous or sanctimonious person |
|---|---|---|---|
| person | Pharisee | a member of an ancient Jewish sect noted for strict obedience to Jewish traditions |
| Meaning | A self-righteous or sanctimonious person. | |
|---|---|---|
| Broader | unpleasant person, disagreeable person | A person who is not pleasant or agreeable |
| Spanish | fariseo | |
| Catalan | fariseu | |
| Adjectives | pharisaic, pharisaical | excessively or hypocritically pious |
| Meaning | A member of an ancient Jewish sect noted for strict obedience to Jewish traditions. | |
|---|---|---|
| Instances | Josephus, Flavius Josephus, Joseph ben Matthias | Jewish general who led the revolt of the Jews against the Romans and then wrote a history of those events (37-100) |
| Broader | Jew, Hebrew, Israelite | A person belonging to the worldwide / worldwide group claiming descent from Jacob (or converted to it) and connected by cultural / cultural or religious ties |
| Spanish | fariseo | |
| Catalan | fariseu | |
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