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English
Etymology
From formalist + -ic.
Adjective
formalistic (comparative more formalistic, superlative most formalistic)
- Formalist.
2006 February 28, YM, “Rabbi Wein on Robert Auman and parshas Vayishlach”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):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.
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