Hebraism
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Etymology edit
From Middle French hebraisme or Latin Hebraismus;[1] equivalent to Hebra- + -ism.
Noun edit
Hebraism (countable and uncountable, plural Hebraisms)
- A characteristic trait of the Hebrew language. By extension it is sometimes applied to the Jewish people or their faith, national ideology, or culture.
- Synonym: Hebraicism
- 1762, William Warburton, The Doctrine of Grace:
- The Scripture Greek is observed to be full of Syriasms and Hebraisms.
- 1833, Elia [pseudonym; Charles Lamb], “Barrenness of the Imaginative Faculty in the Productions of Modern Art”, in The Last Essays of Elia. […], London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 177:
- Who, in reading this magnificent Hebraism, in his conception, sees aught but the heroic son of Nun, with the outstretched arm, and the greater and lesser light obsequious?
- (rhetoric) Excessive use of expressions derived from Hebrew.
Coordinate terms edit
- (foreignisms) foreignism; Akkadianism / Akkadism, Americanism, Amharism, Anglicism, Arabism, Aramaism, Armenism, Australianism, Batavism, Belorussianism, Bengalism, Briticism, Bulgarism, Catalanism, Church Slavicism / Church Slavonicism / Slavonicism, Croatism, Czechism / Bohemianism, Gallicism / Frenchism, Germanism / Teutonism, Grecism / Hellenism, Hebraism, Hispanism / Hispanicism / Castilianism, Hungarianism / Magyarism, Indianism, Iranianism, Irishism, Italianism / Italicism, Japanism, Kazakhism, Latinism, Macedonianism, Mandaism, Moravianism, New Zealandism, Persianism, Polonism, Portuguesism, Russianism, Scotticism, Serbism, Serbo-Croatism, Sinicism, Slavism, Slovenism / Pannonianism, Sumerianism / Sumerism, Syriacism, Turkism, Ukrainism / Ukrainianism, Uzbekism, Yiddishism
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References edit
- ^ “Hebraism, n.”, in OED Online
[1], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000, archived from the original on 2023-09-28.
