Ishmaeln.
/ˈɪʃmeɪəl/ Proper name of the son of Abraham by Hagar; hence, allusively: An outcast; one ‘whose hand is against every man, and every man's hand against him’ (Genesis xvi. 12), one at war with society.
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society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > exclusion from society > [noun] > rendering outcast > outcast
outcastc1390
outwalea1400
abjection1447
abject1528
overcast1574
rejectament1681
castaway1799
pariah1818
leper1825
cagot1844
Ishmaelite1848
hinin1884
expellee1888
eta1897
Ishmael1899
reject1917
1835 W. Irving Tour on Prairies 100 Like..the sons of Ishmael, their hand is against every one, and every one's hand against them.]
1899 Westm. Gaz. 16 Jan. 4/3 Men who were the very Ishmaels of the labour world.
Derivatives
ˈIshmaelite n. (a descendant of Ishmael as the Arabs claim to be): figurative = Ishmael n.
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the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > Semite > [noun] > Arab
Saracenc893
HagareneOE
Araba1382
Turka1400
Ismaelite1571
Ishmaelite1577
A-rab1865
Johnny1884
society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > exclusion from society > [noun] > rendering outcast > outcast
outcastc1390
outwalea1400
abjection1447
abject1528
overcast1574
rejectament1681
castaway1799
pariah1818
leper1825
cagot1844
Ishmaelite1848
hinin1884
expellee1888
eta1897
Ishmael1899
reject1917
1577 T. Vautrollier tr. Luther Epist. to Galathians (1588) (iv. 29) 227 a It greeueth vs that these Ishmaelites hate and persecute vs so grievously.
1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair lxvii. 611 Jos's tents and pilau were pleasant to this little Ishmaelite.
1876 A. M. Fairbairn Strauss ii, in Contemp. Rev. June 125 Menzel was a literary Ishmaelite.
Ishmaelitic adj. /-ˈɪtɪk/ = Ishmaelitish adj.
ˈIshmaelitish adj. /-ˌaɪtɪʃ/ of, pertaining to, of the nature of an Ishmaelite.
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the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > Semite > [adjective] > Arab
Sarsenisha1366
Saracena1400
Arabianc1400
Arab?1520
Saracenican1607
Hagarene1610
Saracenical1613
Saracenic1638
Ishmaelitish1687
Saracenian1818
A-rab1894
society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > exclusion from society > [adjective] > outcast
outcasta1325
refusea1413
refusedc1530
Ishmaelitish1687
1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant e The name of Sarazins was given to the Ishmaelitish Arabians, or..the Arabs of the Desart.
1855 H. Clarke New Dict. Eng. Lang. Ishmaelitish, like Ishmael; thievish.
1880 M. D. Conway in Academy 24 July 55 An Ishmaelitish style of criticising his literary contemporaries.
1896 D. L. Leonard Cent. Congregat. Ohio 71 Lonesome and in peril were they..and fell into a wretched Ishmaelitish frame.
Ishmaelitism n. /ˈɪʃmeɪəˌlaɪtɪz(ə)m/ the character and action of an Ishmaelite.
/ˈɪʃmeɪəˌlaɪtɪz(ə)m/ the character and action of an Ishmaelite.ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > exclusion from society > [noun] > rendering outcast > outcast > condition of
outcastness1846
pariahism1855
pariahdom1877
Ishmaelitism1897
pariahship1905
pariahhood1907
1897 O. Smeaton Smollett ii. 26 The same evil spirit of Social Ishmaelitism..was present with him until a year or two of his death.
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