Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to Japheth, one of the sons of Noah; descended, or supposed to be descended, from Japheth; Indo-European or Aryan: as, the Japhetic nations. Compare
Semitic , and Hamitic.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to, or derived from, Japheth, one of the sons of Noah
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- adjective obsolete, ethnography Of or pertaining to the supposed descendants of
Japheth , one of the three sons of Noah in theBible . - adjective obsolete Of or pertaining to the supposed languages spoken by the descendants of Japheth, son of Noah in the
Bible .
Etymologies
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Semitic, and the Aryan, or Indo-European (formerly called the Japhetic).
General History for Colleges and High Schools Philip Van Ness Myers
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Thus "Japhetic" came to be used as a synonym for Europeans.
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Thus "Japhetic" came to be used as a synonym for Europeans.
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But I will go further in my deductions, and I will affirm that this specimen of the human family is of the Japhetic race, which has since spread from the
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Japhetic and Semitic tongues, it may be remarked that though nothing can be more distinct than Sanscrit and Arabic, yet that
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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It is in the Zend-Avesta, primal Japhetic utterance.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860 Various
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Hamitic or Japhetic, as springing from the three sons of Noah, all partook of some of the natural proclivities of their revered and ancient grand-sire.
Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro Daniel Wallace [Editor] Culp
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When Moses, the servant with the watchword, "I AM THAT I AM," presented himself to the Shemitic and {42} Japhetic races, he was everywhere received and acknowledged by them as their leader, in opposition to both the temporal and theological power of the Magi and of Pharaoh.
Mysticism and its Results Being an Inquiry into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy John Delafield
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Then that race whose son carried the Savior's Cross, while the Semitic and Japhetic races united to crucify Him, will wear the Dispensational Crown; being also the race, which in the person of the Ethiopian eunuch, furnished the first convert of pure Gentile blood (through a Jewish proselyte) and who hastened to stretch out his hand to God, when Philip drew near to him; and even to ask himself for Christian Baptism.
Men of Maryland George Freeman 1914
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These are emphatically the Japhetic nations, nominally Christians, but armed at this moment to the teeth to destroy one another in defiance of the Gospel which they profess to believe
Men of Maryland George Freeman 1914
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