noun
Other Word Forms
- Hebraistic adjective
- Hebraistically adverb
Etymology
Origin of Hebraist
First recorded in 1745–55; Hebra(ize) + -ist
Example Sentences
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Of Mrs. Taylor, wife of the grandson of the eminent Hebraist, Mackintosh declared that she was the Madame Roland of Norwich.
From East Anglia Personal Recollections and Historical Associations by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)
Only one of them seems to have been an accomplished Hebraist, but both were good Latin and Greek scholars; and both were familiar with Italian, Spanish, French, and German.
From The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss by Prentiss, George L.
Carlyle is a Hebraist unrelieved and unretrieved by the Hellene.
From Thomas Carlyle by Nichol, John
A far greater Hebraist than Luther, who flourished about two hundred years before the great German Reformer came into note, put the same construction on that sacred affirmation.
From Notes and Queries A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc by Various
And here I must confess that I am no Hebraist.
From Platform Monologues by Tucker, T. G. (Thomas George)
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