exilic
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of exilic
Example Sentences
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But he has learned to combine the possibilities of exilic experimentation with the rigor of that training ground.
From New York Times ● Aug. 20, 2021
V. S. Naipaul, Taseer’s former mentor, is repeatedly mentioned in the book, and it is written in his exilic spirit.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 30, 2019
The Babylonian exile scattered the Jews so widely that the exilic and post-exilic prophets depended almost entirely upon this method of reaching their countrymen and thus became writers of epistles.
From The Origin and Permanent Value of the Old Testament by Charles Foster Kent
Hence Leviticus, so far from belonging to an earlier stratum of the Pentateuch than Deuteronomy, as de Wette thought, must belong to a much later stratum, and be at least exilic, if not post-exilic.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 3 "Destructors" to "Diameter" by Various
The stamp of his sufferings is on every passage in that exilic work “Isaiah” XL-LXVI, which presents the Suffering Servant of the Lord and declares the atoning virtues of His Agonies and Death.
From Jeremiah : Being The Baird Lecture for 1922 by Sir George Adam Smith
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