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Hebraism

noun

Jews collectively who practice a religion based on the Torah and the Talmud. Synonyms: Jewish religion, Judaism.

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"Hebraism" Quotes from Famous Books

... pure intuitive imagination. In the sense of St. Paul, as of Plato and all other dynamic philosophers, flesh and blood is 'ipso facto' corruption, that is, the spirit of life in the mid or balancing state between fixation and reviviscence. 'Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?' is a Hebraism for 'this death which the body is.' For matter itself is but 'spiritus in coagulo,' and organized matter the coagulum in the act of being restored; it is then repotentiating. Stop its self-destruction ...

— The Literary Remains Of Samuel Taylor Coleridge • Edited By Henry Nelson Coleridge

... Utilitarianism)—or will the future reduce them to still more archaic forms of Hebraism and Hellenism?—will divide the world between them. Lesser systems of morals will ally themselves on either side for their preservation. On which side will Bushido enlist? Having no set dogma or formula to ...

— Bushido, the Soul of Japan • Inazo Nitobe

Words linked to "Hebraism" : Orthodox Judaism, Jewish religion, Conservative Judaism, religion, Jewry, faith, Reform Judaism, Judaism, organized religion, Jewish Orthodoxy