Hebraism
nounEtymology From Middle French hebraisme or Latin Hebraismus; equivalent to Hebra- + -ism.
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Rhetoric A characteristic trait of the Hebrew language. By extension it is sometimes applied to the Jewish people or their faith, national ideology, or culture.
- The Scripture Greek is observed to be full of Syriasms and Hebraisms.1762, William Warburton, The Doctrine of Grace:
- 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?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:
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Rhetoric Excessive use of expressions derived from Hebrew.