Hebraism

American  

[hee-brey-iz-uhm, -bree-] / ˈhi breɪˌɪz əm, -bri- /

noun

1. an expression or construction distinctive of the Hebrew language.

2. the character, spirit, principles, or practices distinctive of the Hebrew people.

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Hebraism British  

/ ˈhiːbreɪˌɪzəm /

noun

1. a linguistic usage, custom, or other feature borrowed from or particular to the Hebrew language, or to the Jewish people or their culture

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Etymology

Origin of Hebraism

1560–70; < Late Greek Hebraïsmós, equivalent to Hebra- ( see Hebraize) + -ismos -ism

Example Sentences

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

On Hebraism in general, see Gruppe, § 19 and § 24 foll.; on Huet, § 28.

From Atheism in Pagan Antiquity by Andersen, Ingeborg

Hebraism means moral fervour; Hellenism means intellectual sensibility.

From Platform Monologues by Tucker, T. G. (Thomas George)

Nothing could exceed the discord of vituperation, the Hebraism of Carlyle denouncing the Vaticanism of Wiseman, "Free Kirk and other rubbish" pitted against "Comtism, ghastliest of algebraic spectralities."

From Some Diversions of a Man of Letters by Gosse, Edmund

Hence it was that the great globe of Hebraism was now shivered into fragments; projected 'by one sling of that victorious arm'—which had brought them up from Egypt.

From The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 by Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay)