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Hebraism   Listen
noun
Hebraism  n.  
1.
A Hebrew idiom or custom; a peculiar expression or manner of speaking in the Hebrew language.
2.
The type of character of the Hebrews. "The governing idea of Hebraism is strictness of conscience."





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"Hebraism" Quotes from Famous Books



... overreached the mark. With Emma Lazarus, however, this sombre streak has a deeper root; something of birth and temperament is in it—the stamp and heritage of a race born to suffer. But dominant and fundamental though it was, Hebraism was only latent thus far. It was classic and romantic art that first attracted and inspired her. She pictures Aphrodite the beautiful, arising from the waves, and the beautiful Apollo and his loves,—Daphne, ...
— The Poems of Emma Lazarus - Vol. II. (of II.), Jewish Poems: Translations • Emma Lazarus


Words linked to "Hebraism" :   Orthodox Judaism, Jewish religion, Jewish Orthodoxy, Conservative Judaism, Reform Judaism, religion, faith


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