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Hebraistic

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[hee-bray-is-tik, -bree-] / ˌhi breɪˈɪs tɪk, -bri- /
Sometimes Hebraistical

adjective

  1. of or relating to Hebraists or characterized by Hebraism or Hebraisms.


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Etymology

Origin of Hebraistic

First recorded in 1840–50; Hebraist + -ic


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Philo subtle, and with long involved periods knit together by logical connectives: the Book of Wisdom sententious, full of parallelisms, assertory and Hebraistic throughout.

From Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Despite the grammatical involution of the style here carried to an extreme, and underneath the apparatus of Greek pronouns and participles, there is a fine Hebraistic lilt pervading the doxology.

From The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians by G. G. Findlay

The phraseology of the verse in Θ has a distinctly Hebraistic look, much more so than in Ο´. v.

From The Three Additions to Daniel, a Study by William Heaford Daubney

He assumes in this respect the Hebraistic point of view, and looks out from it with an undoubting heartiness which in these days is really refreshing.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864 by Various

I could not ignore the kind but firmly severe criticism implied; I could not but revolt from this Hebraistic onslaught.

From The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece by Anne Douglas Sedgwick

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