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Definition of Hebraism
1. Noun. Jews collectively who practice a religion based on the Torah and the Talmud.
Generic synonyms: Faith, Organized Religion, Religion
Specialized synonyms: Jewish Orthodoxy, Orthodox Judaism, Conservative Judaism, Reform Judaism
Group relationships: Jewry
Derivative terms: Judaical
Definition of Hebraism
1. n. A Hebrew idiom or custom; a peculiar expression or manner of speaking in the Hebrew language.
Definition of Hebraism
1. Noun. the identification of a usage, trait, or characteristic of the Hebrew language. By successive extension it is sometimes applied to the Jewish people, their faith, national ideology, or culture. ¹
2. Noun. (rhetoric) Excessive use of expressions derived from Hebrew ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hebraism
Literary usage of Hebraism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1869)
"He begins by recommending Hebraism tempered and directed by Hellenism; but he
ends by recommending the adoption of Hellenism to an extent utterly ..."
2. The Growth and Influence of Classical Greek Poetry: Lectures Delivered in by Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1894)
"As Mr. Matthew Arnold says in "Culture and Anarchy," the governing idea of
Hellenism is spontaneity of consciousness ; that of Hebraism is strictness of ..."
3. Culture & Anarchy: An Essay in Political and Social Criticism by Matthew Arnold (1911)
"Hebraism AND HELLENISM. \J THIS fundamental ground is our preference of doing to
thinking. Now this preference is a main element in our nature, ..."
4. Matthew Arnold and His Relation to the Thought of Our Time: An Appreciation by William Harbutt Dawson (1904)
"... you forget to blame the adept who is able to get so much out of him. His treatment
of that favourite theme of his, Hellenism and Hebraism, ..."
5. Literature, Its Principles and Problems by Theodore Whitefield Hunt (1906)
"CHAPTER ELEVEN Hebraism AND HELLENISM IN LITERATURE IN a very interesting book
entitled, "Social Ideals in English Letters," the accomplished authoress ..."
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