Semitismn.

1848 Rep. 17th Meeting Brit. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 1847 295 We find these languages [of the Altai-Ural family]..nearer allied to them [sc. the Indo-Germanic tongues], than to Chamism and Semitism.

1870 F. W. Farrar Families of Speech iii. 114 The soberest conclusion seems to be..for the present to exclude Egyptian from the dignity of being a kind of ante-historic Semitism.

1855 Jrnl. Royal Asiatic Soc. 15 234 The predominance of Semitisms in the latter language [sc. Latin], as compared with the former [sc. Greek].

1886 T. H. Huxley in 19th Cent. Apr. 498 The Egyptian language, during the period of the nineteenth dynasty, is said by Brugsch to be as full of Semitisms as German is of Gallicisms.

1932 Times Lit. Suppl. 31 Mar. 224/3 Of the fifty-four Semitisms in [the Gospel of] John.., Mr. Colwell provides parallels to..thirty-one from classical Greek.

2003 D. C. Allison Test. Abraham ii. 94 ‘The sons of men’ is a Semitism meaning ‘all people’.

1851 R. G. Latham Man & his Migrations iv. 146 The amount of Semitism in certain families.

1866 Anthropol. Rev. 4 301 The laws of progression [will not] allow us to suppose that Europe, having once received and assimilated so much of the higher elements of Semitism as are involved in Christianity, will again finally surrender them for an inferior creed.

1870 B. Disraeli Lothair I. xxix. 275 In a greater or less degree, these conditions obtained from the age of Pericles to the age of Hadrian in pure Aryan communities, but Semitism began then to prevail, and ultimately triumphed. Semitism has destroyed art; it taught man to despise his own body, and the essence of art is to honour the human frame.

1915 J. H. Randall Humanity at Cross-roads 64 Out of Semitism, Hebraism; out of Hebraism, Judaism; out of Judaism, Christianity.

2013 S. Llano tr. M. Barrès in Whose Spain? ii. 63 I find there, on every step, the most beautiful fight between Catholicism and Semitism [Fr. du romanisme et du sémitisme], an Arab or Jewish element which persists under the thick Catholic varnish.

1881 19th Cent. Feb. 343 Diatribe after diatribe was launched..and gradually Herr Marr's theory became exaggerated, until, under the name of ‘International Semitism’, it was proclaimed that the danger extended to the whole of the civilised world.

1886 W. J. Tucker Life E. Europe 198 The Church of Rome will never countenance semitic innovations of any sort. The Catholic party must be propped up by staunch opponents to semitism.

1924 Times 6 Aug. 11/3 The Sabbath..must rank among the chief contributions of Semitism to society.

1940 E. Pound Let. 7–8 Feb. in Pound/Lewis: Lett. (1985) 218 I object as much to semitism in matters of mind as in matters of commerce.

2009 Africa News (Nexis) 18 May A brand of political semitism called Zionism.

2012 D. B. Dennis Inhumanities xv. 337 Other contributors to the paper scanned Mann's works for evidence of his Semitism or at least philo-Semitism.

1913 C. H. Dickinson Christian Reconstruction Mod. Life 157 The modern Jew is an inveterate Semite of Semites, his Semitism stiffened by unspeakable Aryan injustices, which still continue in undiscriminating hate and brutal misconception.

1936 Times 10 Nov. 12/5 A Jewish child is stood up before a class in order that degrading traits of Semitism may be demonstrated on its features.

2002 B. Glassman Benjamin Disraeli 182 He utilizes Disraeli's Semitism to prove that there is no legitimate hope that the Jewish people can ever be assimilated.

2014 Cape Argus (Nexis) 25 July 18 Sephardi/Mizrahi and Arabs have a shared Semitism.