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Definition of Canaanitic
1. Noun. A group of Semitic languages.
Generic synonyms: Semitic
Specialized synonyms: Hebrew, Canaanite, Phoenician, Ugaritic
Definition of Canaanitic
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to the Canaanites. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Canaanitic
Literary usage of Canaanitic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1912)
"This would make the writing of the Old canaanitic script common with that of the
... Delitzsch, to be sure, does not derive the canaanitic writing from the ..."
2. The Science of Language: Linguistics, Philology, Etymology by Abel Hovelacque (1877)
"... grouped with the Chaldee and Syriac, is really more akin to the Hebrew; thus
belonging, not to the Aramean, but to the canaanitic group. (2) Asgi/riati. ..."
3. History, Prophecy and the Monuments by James Frederick McCurdy (1914)
"Hereafter, canaanitic proper names abounded in Egypt; the language took up many
canaanitic words, and deities worshipped by the same race came to be ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Nevertheless, the great confederation of the canaanitic cities (perhaps to be
identified with the Hyksos), backed by the Phoenician cities, the State, ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"16, though some think they belong rather to the pre-canaanitic inhabitants ...
That this people had a certain preponderance among the canaanitic tribes is ..."
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