Shemitic

/ (ʃəˈmɪtɪk) /


noun, adjective
  1. another word for Semitic

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How to use Shemitic in a sentence

  • The Shemitic nobility is purely patriarchal: it owes nothing to conquest; it has its origin in blood.

    The Desert World | Arthur Mangin
  • The Hebrew belongs to a stock of related languages commonly called Shemitic, because spoken mainly by the descendants of Shem.

    Companion to the Bible | E. P. Barrows
  • Many of these peculiar words are Aramean; that is, they are words current in the Aramean branch of the Shemitic languages.

    Companion to the Bible | E. P. Barrows
  • Behind the laws regulating sacrifice in the Old Testament there lies the long history of Shemitic ritual and religion.

    Gloria Crucis | J. H. Beibitz
  • They had the same traditions in common with the Shemitic and Hamitic families from which they sprung.