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单词 sethite
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Sethiten.adj.

/ˈsɛθʌɪt/
Forms: Also Shethite.
Etymology: < Seth (see Sethian n.) + -ite suffix1.
A. n.
1. A descendant of Seth (occasionally transferred a spiritual descendant of Seth).
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Maccabeea1425
Septuagint1564
Japhethite1598
Sethite1659
Noachides1703
Japhetian1803
Maccabeana1831
1659 R. Gell Ess. Amendm. Transl. Bible 102 The Shethites and Shemites were and are taken up wholly or principally with matters of the life to come.
1863 J. G. Murphy Crit. Comm. Bk. Gen. (iv. 22–3) 180 The Cainites were..an older race than the Shethites.
1896 Dawson in Expositor Sept. 206 The Sethites were thus sons and daughters of Adam by special right.
2. = Sethian n.
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Sethian1721
Sethinian1723
Sethite1765
1765 A. Maclaine tr. J. L. von Mosheim Eccl. Hist. Cent. ii. ii. v. §18 The Sethites..honoured Seth in a particular manner, and looked upon him as the same person with Christ.
1862 Chamb. Encycl. IV. 804/1 To the Syrians may also be reckoned the Ophites, Cainites, and Sethites.
B. adj.
Of or pertaining to Seth, descended from Seth.
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Maccabean1609
Abrahamical1683
Abrahamic1699
Sethite1795
Maccabee1851
1795 T. Maurice Hist. Hindostan (1820) i. xii. 382 The virtuous Sethite progeny.
1877 J. W. Dawson Origin of World xii. 255 This intermixture of the Sethite and Cainite races.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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