noun
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Etymology
Origin of Hebraist
First recorded in 1745–55; Hebra(ize) + -ist
Example Sentences
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After which the Hebraist friend of course had turned his back on the offender, and there was an end of it.
From Marcella by Mrs. Humphry Ward
Carlyle is a Hebraist unrelieved and unretrieved by the Hellene.
From Thomas Carlyle by John Nichol
The Assyrian student, moreover, possesses an advantage which is not shared by the Hebraist.
From Fresh Light from the Ancient Monuments by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
He was a good Greek and Latin scholar, a profound Hebraist, and, according to the measure of his day, an accomplished mathematician.
From Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. by A. Turnbull
Finishing his course in 1817, he became a student at the Divinity Hall, where he gained some reputation as a Hebraist.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" by Various
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