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单词 Ninevite
释义 Ninevite|ˈnɪnɪvaɪt|
Also 6–7 Ninivite.
[ad. L. Ninivīta, f. Ninive Nineveh: see -ite.]
An inhabitant of Nineveh.
1550Lever Serm. (Arb.) 24 The same destruccion was tolde to the Sodomites, was tolde to the Niniuites.1662Stillingfl. Orig. Sacræ ii. vi. §11 Because the Ninivites might now suspect him to be no true Prophet.1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) IX. 306/1 Jonah..was ordered to go and prophecy the destruction of the Ninevites.1845Kitto Cycl. Bibl. Lit. s.v. Nineveh, The Ninevites repented at the preaching of Jonah.1888Academy 7 Apr. 245/2 The Ninevites and the Babylonians, who spoke the same language, exhibit two distinct ethnical types.
Hence ˈNinevitish a.
1846Thorpe ælfric's Hom. II. 125 The old transgressions of the Ninevitish people.
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