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
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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
The moral principle of Hebraism, in the special guise of Christianity, transformed the whole life and conduct and ideals of European men.
From Platform Monologues by T. G. (Thomas George) Tucker
Throckmorton, who knew something about most things, saw through Morford’s shallow Hebraism, and inwardly scoffed at the cheerful insufficiency with which the most abstruse biblical problems were attacked.
From Throckmorton by Molly Elliot Seawell
If even our literary men now tell us that conduct is three-fourths of life, it is because Hebraism and the Christianity which sprang from Hebraism have stamped this idea ineffaceably upon the conscience of mankind.
From The Scrap Book. Volume 1, No. 2 April 1906 by Various
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 Edmund Gosse
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