Sadduceeism

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[saj-uh-see-iz-uhm, sad-yuh-see-iz-uhm] / ˈsædʒ əˌsiˌɪz əm, ˈsæd jəˌsiˌɪz əm /

noun

1. the beliefs and practices of the Sadducees, especially the denial of an immaterial or immortal human soul, angels, or other spiritual beings.

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Sadduceeism

And on this and on other matters he thought he would compromise with his conscience, and that Sadduceeism was a very convenient and good-humored profession of faith.

From The History of Pendennis, Volume 2 His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy by William Makepeace Thackeray

These views furnished the grounds for the charge of Sadduceeism preferred against him by his adversary.

From The Sceptics of the Old Testament: Job - Koheleth - Agur by Emile Joseph Dillon

Phariseeism on the one hand, and Sadduceeism on the other,—a religion hardened into forms, and an empty scepticism, cold and dead,—divided the world between them.

From Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by James Freeman Clarke

And on this and on other matters he thought he would compromise with his conscience, and that Sadduceeism was a very convenient and good-humoured profession of faith.

From The History of Pendennis by William Makepeace Thackeray

The avowed purpose of Mather, in seeking it, was to put it into circulation—to "box it about"—thereby to produce an effect, to the putting down of Sadduceeism, or all further opposition to witchcraft prosecutions.

From Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather A Reply by Charles Wentworth Upham