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Canaanite, n.1|ˈkeɪnənaɪt|
[f. prec. + -ite.]
1. A native of Canaan. fig. ‘No true Israelite.’
1382Wyclif Judg. i. 32 He dwellid in the mydil of Chananei [1388 in the myddis of Cananey]. 1535Coverdale ibid. But dwelt amonge the Cananites. 1605Tryall Chev. ii. i. in Bullen O. Pl. (1884) III. 285 What foolish Canaanits were they to run in debt to their eyes for an houres sleepe. 1727De Foe Syst. Magic i. i. (1840) 35.
2. (more properly Cananæan): One of a Jewish sect desperate and fanatical in its opposition to the Romans: hence, a zealot, a fanatic.
1611Bible Matt. x. 4 The names of the twelue Apostles are these..Simon the Canaanite [1881 Revised, Cananæan.]
Hence ˈCanaanitess, a woman of Canaan; Canaaˈnitic, Canaaˈnitish adjs., belonging to Canaan; of or like a Canaanite. Also fig.
1621Ainsworth Annot. Pentat. Numb. xxvi. 13 [Saul] the sonne of a Canaanitesse. 1882–3Schaff Relig. Encycl. II. 1151 The Jebusites were a Canaanitic tribe. 1535Coverdale Gen. xlvi. 10 The Cananitish woman. 1872Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. lx. 6 Let not Canaanitish doubts and legalisms keep thee out of the inheritance of grace. |