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  • noun A descendant of the Biblical Shem.

Etymologies

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Shem +‎ -ite

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Examples

  • Most gate guards in Shemite cities were usually not quite prepared for trouble as ruffians of all kinds routinely traveled between the various city-states.

    Conan Fan Fiction! Cromsblood 2009

  • Most gate guards in Shemite cities were usually not quite prepared for trouble as ruffians of all kinds routinely traveled between the various city-states.

    Archive 2009-12-01 Reis O'Brien 2009

  • She was indeed a lovely woman of high-class Shemite birth from her looks.

    Conan Fan Fiction! Cromsblood 2009

  • Yumma, the last oasis before their destination, the Shemite City of Haval, was an abattoir of blood and corpses.

    Archive 2009-12-01 Reis O'Brien 2009

  • Yumma, the last oasis before their destination, the Shemite City of Haval, was an abattoir of blood and corpses.

    Conan Fan Fiction! Cromsblood 2009

  • Haval were as most Shemite city-states, a walled city.

    Archive 2009-12-01 Reis O'Brien 2009

  • Haval were as most Shemite city-states, a walled city.

    Conan Fan Fiction! Cromsblood 2009

  • She was indeed a lovely woman of high-class Shemite birth from her looks.

    Archive 2009-12-01 Reis O'Brien 2009

  • He did not go south into African Ethiopia, but into the Ethiopia of the Arabian Peninsula, where he married an Ethiopian who was a Shemite.

    Can America Survive? John Hagee 2010

  • He did not go south into African Ethiopia, but into the Ethiopia of the Arabian Peninsula, where he married an Ethiopian who was a Shemite.

    Can America Survive? John Hagee 2010

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