Sadducean
Americanadjective
noun
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A kingdom of souls, if not intolerable to his Sadducean faith, seemed to him but an abstraction drawn from the depths of a devotion too fond and dreamy.
From Ben-Hur; a tale of the Christ by Wallace, Lewis
The policing of this combined fortress, sanctuary, and treasure house was left, even to the power of life and death, in the hands of the Sadducean hierocracy.
From Religion and the War by Various
On the other hand, Sadducean control was notoriously and infamously corrupt.
From Religion and the War by Various
In fact, part of this criticism was voiced by the Pharisees, as they attacked the Sadducean insistence upon the letter of the Law.
From Jewish Theology by Kohler, Kaufmann
It was the Sadducean High Priest who gave the counsel of death.
From Gloria Crucis addresses delivered in Lichfield Cathedral Holy Week and Good Friday, 1907 by Beibitz, J. H. (Joseph Hugh)
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