单词 | hebraism |
释义 | Hebraismn. 1. A phrase or construction characteristic of the Hebrew language; a Hebrew idiom or expression. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Afro-Asiatic > [noun] > Semitic > Hebrew > idiom characteristic of Hebraism1570 Jewism1826 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Miii/1 Hebraisme, hæbraismus. 1645 Milton Tetrachordon 63 The New Testament, though..originally writt in Greeke, yet hath nothing neer so many Atticisms as Hebraisms, & Syriacisms. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 405. ¶3 Our Language has received innumerable Elegancies and Improvements, from that Infusion of Hebraisms, which are derived to it out of the Poetical Passages in Holy Writ. a1842 T. Arnold in A. P. Stanley Life & Corr. T. Arnold (1844) I. vi. 274 To fill our pages with Hebraisms. 2. a. A quality or attribute of the Hebrew people; Hebrew character or nature; the Hebrew method of thought or system of religion, Judaism. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > Semite > [noun] > Jew > quality Hebrewism1611 Jewishness?1652 Hebraism1850 Hebraicism1852 Semitism1881 Yiddishkeit1888 1850 R. W. Emerson Swedenborg in Representative Men iii. 127 The book had been grand, if the Hebraism had been omitted, and the law stated without Gothicism. 1872 C. Wordsworth Comm. Rev. Pref. 149 (note) The design of the Apocalypse is not to Hebraize Christianity but to Christianize Hebraism. 1888 Mrs. H. Ward Robert Elsmere III. v. xxxi. 12 In Hebraism of feature, and swarthy smoothness of cheek. b. Applied by Matthew Arnold to that mode of human thought and action of which the ancient Hebrew is taken as the type; the moral, as opposed to the intellectual, theory of life: cf. Hellenism n. ΚΠ 1869 M. Arnold Culture & Anarchy (1875) iv. 133 Self-conquest, self-devotion, the following not our own individual will, but the will of God, obedience, is the fundamental idea of this form, also, of the discipline to which we have attached the general name of Hebraism. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1570 |
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