British Israelite

British

noun

a member of a religious movement claiming that the British people are descended from the lost tribes of Israel

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British Israelite

He was the sort of man who would become a British Israelite nowadays, and spend the rest of his life prophesying the end of the world by measuring the passages in the Great Pyramid.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

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