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  • abbreviation Semitic

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Examples

  • Rather, I'm using the term in the sense of the Tibetan word Sem, which has a much broader meaning, closer to ‘psyche 'or ‘spirit'; it includes intellect and feeling, heart and mind.

    Excerpt: The Art of Happiness by His Holiness The Dalai Lama 1998

  • And then she called Sem a whore's son and said about ... said about mummy deserving what she'd get, that she was going to hang tomorrow and was in jail tonight and we'd be orphans and that if the missus had half a thought in her brainless head, she'd turn us out into the streets. "

    Renegade's Magic Hobb, Robin 2008

  • The whirling dance, called the Semà, goes through several stages, and is meant to invoke divine love and symbolize a mystic cycle leading to perfection.

    Archive 2006-07-01 Walter Jon Williams 2006

  • The whirling dance, called the Semà, goes through several stages, and is meant to invoke divine love and symbolize a mystic cycle leading to perfection.

    Log of the Eclipse (9) Walter Jon Williams 2006

  • The eldest son of Noe was called Sem, the next Cham, 1240 the third Jafeth.

    Genesis A Translated from the Old English Lawrence Mason 1890

  • The stout-minded heroes, 1550 the sons of Noe, were called Sem and Cham, and the third

    Genesis A Translated from the Old English Lawrence Mason 1890

  • In spring, the leaves of '' Sem '' open yellow and pink with shades of green; leaves remain attractive all season.

    unknown title 2009

  • After his post-graduate year at "Sem", he ended up going to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, an elite academic school whose claim to fame in NCAA athletics is its top drawer Division I men's lacrosse team (he passed on Division I-AA Lehigh).

    SportsProf 2009

  • In spring, the leaves of '' Sem '' open yellow and pink with shades of green; leaves remain attractive all season.

    unknown title 2009

  • You'll know all I do 'fore long, and then you'll need your back, so's you can get ready to go to a Young Ladies 'Sem'nary. "

    Michael O'Halloran Gene Stratton-Porter 1893

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