formalistic
adjEtymology From formalist + -ic.
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Formalist.
- By 1900, many of the young who grew up in the Hirschian community had dropped out and even among those who remained committed, their religious observance was rather formalistic and arid.2006 February 28, YM, “Rabbi Wein on Robert Auman and parshas Vayishlach”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):
- Derived terms
- antiformalistic, formalistically, nonformalistic