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Shemitic

/ ʃəˈmɪtɪk /

noun

  1. another word for Semitic
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

The Shemitic nobility is purely patriarchal: it owes nothing to conquest; it has its origin in blood.

The Hebrew belongs to a stock of related languages commonly called Shemitic, because spoken mainly by the descendants of Shem.

Many of these peculiar words are Aramean; that is, they are words current in the Aramean branch of the Shemitic languages.

Behind the laws regulating sacrifice in the Old Testament there lies the long history of Shemitic ritual and religion.

They had the same traditions in common with the Shemitic and Hamitic families from which they sprung.

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