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单词 Hebraism
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Definition of Hebraism in English:

Hebraism

noun ˈhiːbreɪɪz(ə)mˈhibreɪˌɪzəm
  • 1A Hebrew idiom or expression.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • His idea was to make Moses seem more German by eliminating his Hebraisms to such an extent that no one would think of calling him a Hebrew.
    • Soon he is sprinkling his conversation with Hebraisms.
  • 2mass noun The Jewish religion, culture, or character.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The essence of Hebraism is the Bible, which has greatly influenced every field of western culture.
    • One cannot revert back to Hebraism.
    • Matthew Arnold, writing in his celebrated work Culture and Anarchy, suggests that Hebraism and Hellenism are the two essential philosophies of life between which civilized man must choose.
    • It does not help us come to terms with Matthew Arnold to consider only his Hellenism and not his Hebraism, his ‘sweetness and light’ and not his moralism, his culture and not his religion.
    • His rejection of Hebraism is also dramatized in his confrontation with his soul.

Derivatives

  • Hebraistic

  • adjectivehiːbreɪˈɪstɪk
    • There is certainly nothing Hebraistic about this name, nor does it sound like any Egyptian name we ever heard; possibly, however, by putting the Hebrew and the Egyptian languages together, or by adding to the Egyptian ‘the learning of the Jews,’ this name, ‘Sam,’ might be manufactured.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Instead of a Hebraistic strictness of conscience, instead of Hellenistic spontaneity of consciousness, these people possessed the conception of conscience and of consciousness wholly dependent upon God.
      • The Jewish belief in a special preference of the Jews before all nations doubtless suggested this, and it forms a leading feature in the strong Hebraistic form of the writer's Christianity.
      • The result therefore, was exactly and inerrantly what God wanted it to be, grammatical blunders and Hebraistic Greek sentences and weird vocabulary and all.
      • It has become fashionable to divide the rival tendencies of modern thought into the two classes of Hellenistic and Hebraistic.
  • Hebraize

  • verb ˈhiːbreɪʌɪzˈhibreɪˌaɪz
    [with object]
    • Make Hebrew in form or character.

      the tradition of Hebraizing names
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The Israeli government encouraged the Hebraizing of surnames.
      • Eventually, he was circumcised and he Hebraized his name.
      • When Israel was declared an independent state, he Hebraized his name from Shertok to Sharett, and became its first foreign minister.

Origin

Late 16th century: from French hébraïsme or modern Latin Hebraismus, from late Greek Hebraïsmos, from Hebraios (see Hebrew).

 
 

Definition of Hebraism in US English:

Hebraism

nounˈhēbrāˌizəmˈhibreɪˌɪzəm
  • 1A Hebrew idiom or expression.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Soon he is sprinkling his conversation with Hebraisms.
    • His idea was to make Moses seem more German by eliminating his Hebraisms to such an extent that no one would think of calling him a Hebrew.
  • 2The Jewish religion, culture, or character.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It does not help us come to terms with Matthew Arnold to consider only his Hellenism and not his Hebraism, his ‘sweetness and light’ and not his moralism, his culture and not his religion.
    • His rejection of Hebraism is also dramatized in his confrontation with his soul.
    • Matthew Arnold, writing in his celebrated work Culture and Anarchy, suggests that Hebraism and Hellenism are the two essential philosophies of life between which civilized man must choose.
    • One cannot revert back to Hebraism.
    • The essence of Hebraism is the Bible, which has greatly influenced every field of western culture.

Origin

Late 16th century: from French hébraïsme or modern Latin Hebraismus, from late Greek Hebraïsmos, from Hebraios (see Hebrew).

 
 
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