legalistic in English

adjective

tending to adhere to the law or to a particular set of rules

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "legalistic" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "legalistic", or refer to the context using the word "legalistic" in the English Dictionary.

1. Jesus was exposing the Pharisees’ narrow, legalistic view.

2. Their legalistic justice was void of mercy and compassion.

3. Yet, these sessions were not just endless legalistic debates.

4. By inventing legalistic Contrivances that foresee lawsuits, business difficulties and make-believe invasions of personal rights

5. In the case of the Pharisees, how did a rigid, legalistic viewpoint lead to disloyalty?

6. Aggadot are (in accepted usage) non-legalistic exegetical texts in the classical rabbinic literature of Judaism, particularly as re…

7. The Antinomians rejected the very notion of obedience as legalistic; to them the good life flowed from the inner working of the Holy Spirit

8. Aggadah (Aramaic אגדה: tales, lore; pl. Aggadot or (Ashkenazi) Aggados) refers to the homiletic and non-legalistic exegetical texts in classical rabbinic literature - …

9. The conservative Supreme Court jurist refers on page 22, for example, to the "legalistic argle-Bargle" the court majority uses as its rationale

10. The Antinomians rejected the very notion of obedience as legalistic; to them the good life flowed from the inner working of the Holy Spirit

11. Aggadah (אַגָּדְתָא “tales, lore”) refers to non-legalistic exegetical texts in the classical rabbinic literature of Judaism, particularly as recorded in the Talmud and Midrash.

12. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia invoked a curious term in his fierce dissent of Wednesday's ruling that struck down the Defense of Marriage Act, calling it a "legalistic argle-Bargle," …

13. Aggadah ( plural Aggadahs or Aggadah or Aggadot or Aggadoth ) A homiletic and non- legalistic exegetical text in the classical rabbinic literature of Judaism, particularly as recorded in the Talmud and Midrash

14. Aggadah (plural Aggadahs or Aggadah or Aggadot or Aggadoth) A homiletic and non-legalistic exegetical text in the classical rabbinic literature of Judaism, particularly as recorded in the Talmud and Midrash

15. By Jesus’ time those traditions had become so voluminous and such an oppressive morass of legalistic nit-picking —so laden with time-consuming ceremonial rituals— that no workingman could possibly keep them.

16. Aggadot or (Ashkenazi) aggados; also known as aggad or aggadh) refers to the homiletic and non-legalistic exegetical texts in the classical rabbinic literature of Judaism, particularly as recorded in the Talmud and Midrash.In general, Aggadah is a compendium of rabbinic homilies that incorporates folklore, historical anecdotes, moral

17. Aggadot or (Ashkenazi) aggados; also known as aggad or aggadh or agâdâ) refers to non-legalistic exegetical texts in the classical rabbinic literature of Judaism, particularly as recorded in the Talmud and Midrash.In general, Aggadah is a compendium of rabbinic texts that incorporates folklore, historical anecdotes, moral exhortations