Hebraism
Americannoun
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an expression or construction distinctive of the Hebrew language.
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the character, spirit, principles, or practices distinctive of the Hebrew people.
noun
Etymology
Origin of Hebraism
1560–70; < Late Greek Hebraïsmós, equivalent to Hebra- ( see Hebraize) + -ismos -ism
Example Sentences
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These are the permanent values he has resolved to serve, believing that a synthesis of Hellenism and Hebraism is the hope of the world.
From Time Magazine Archive
She has at any rate vindicated her sex against the charge of what Mr. Arnold calls Hebraism.
From Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) by Calhoun, Lucia Gilbert
Nevertheless, so far as material offers itself, we find in Hebrew art just those qualities we might expect from Hebraism.
From Platform Monologues by Tucker, T. G. (Thomas George)
One of these systems, which played a prominent part, especially in the seventeenth century, is the so-called Hebraism, i.e. the attempt to derive the whole of paganism from Judaism.
From Atheism in Pagan Antiquity by Andersen, Ingeborg
"The name of the city of that day shall be the 'Lord is there,'" is of the essence of Hebraism.
From Platform Monologues by Tucker, T. G. (Thomas George)
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