Ninevite

/ ˈnɪnɪˌvaɪt /

noun

1. a native or inhabitant of Nineveh, the ancient capital of Assyria

Example Sentences

A succession of Ninevite armies raided north Syria and even south-east Asia Minor, and gradually reduced the Hatti.

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Some interesting results might indeed have been obtained by examining the Egyptian and Ninevite landscape sculpture, but in nowise conclusive enough to be worth the pains of the inquiry; for the landscape of sculpture is necessarily confined in range, and usually inexpressive of the complete feelings of the workman, being introduced rather to explain the place and circumstances of events, than for its own sake.

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Simon, the Ninevite, came to me, and promised me his service into Persia.

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In the Ninevite duplicate in the British Museum, however, a kind of title in the modern sense of the word is given, namely, Dinani Ḫammurabi, “The Laws of Ḫammurabi,” the first word being from the common Semitic root which appears, in Semitic Babylonian, under the form of dânu, “to judge.”

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Accordingly, the Ninevite sculptor, in order to make both views perfect, has given the animal five legs.

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