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2. Noun. (plural of Samaritan) ¹

3. Noun. (plural of samaritan) ¹

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Definition of Samaritans

1. samaritan [n] - See also: samaritan

Lexicographical Neighbors of Samaritans

Literary usage of Samaritans

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 (1911)
"That the mutual hatred of the two peoples did not bar the samaritans from the Gospel is ... After that the samaritans dropped out of history for a time, ..."

2. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1899)
"The samaritans were finally subdued by the regular ** Theophan. Chron. p. 153. John, the Monophysite bishop of Asia, is a more authentic witness of this ..."

3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck, Samuel Macauley Jackson (1911)
"The schism and the mutual hatred of Jews and samaritans are most simply accounted for by the old standing opposition between north and south. ..."

4. Theology of the Old Testament by Gustav Friedrich Oehler, George Edward Day (1883)
"Origin of the samaritans (1). In place of the Israelites who were carried ... The other and older view, that the samaritans proceeded from wholly heathen ..."

5. Biblical Researches in Palestine and the Adjacent Regions: A Journal of by Edward Robinson, Eli Smith (1856)
"This correspondence, extending to six letters from the samaritans, so far as it has been preserved in passing piecemeal through various hands, ..."

6. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The Jewish leaders next started on the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem, and here again met with the hostility of the samaritans, whose complaints at ..."

7. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1854)
"The samaritans were finally subdued by the regular forces of the East; twenty thousand were slain, twenty thousand were sold by the Arabs to the infidels of ..."

8. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"That the mutual hatred of the two peoples did not bar the samaritans from the Gospel is ... After that the samaritans dropped out of history for a time, ..."

9. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1899)
"The samaritans were finally subdued by the regular ** Theophan. Chron. p. 153. John, the Monophysite bishop of Asia, is a more authentic witness of this ..."

10. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck, Samuel Macauley Jackson (1911)
"The schism and the mutual hatred of Jews and samaritans are most simply accounted for by the old standing opposition between north and south. ..."

11. Theology of the Old Testament by Gustav Friedrich Oehler, George Edward Day (1883)
"Origin of the samaritans (1). In place of the Israelites who were carried ... The other and older view, that the samaritans proceeded from wholly heathen ..."

12. Biblical Researches in Palestine and the Adjacent Regions: A Journal of by Edward Robinson, Eli Smith (1856)
"This correspondence, extending to six letters from the samaritans, so far as it has been preserved in passing piecemeal through various hands, ..."

13. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The Jewish leaders next started on the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem, and here again met with the hostility of the samaritans, whose complaints at ..."

14. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1854)
"The samaritans were finally subdued by the regular forces of the East; twenty thousand were slain, twenty thousand were sold by the Arabs to the infidels of ..."

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