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- noun Plural form of
Semite .
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The term Semites is applied to a group of peoples closely related in language, whose habitat is Asia and partly Africa.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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The hunt for anti-Semites is a hunt for pockets of Resistance to the New World Order … like Nazis going house to house.
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Since an absence of racists and anti-Semites is good for conversation, is there any way we could persuade you to ban racists and anti-Semites (and misogynists) when they get particularly egregious?
Matthew Yglesias » Kristol Complicates Napoleon Metaphors 2010
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Since an absence of racists and anti-Semites is good for conversation, is there any way we could persuade you to ban racists and anti-Semites (and misogynists) when they get particularly egregious?
Matthew Yglesias » Kristol Complicates Napoleon Metaphors 2010
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“Sa’lab” among the Semites is locally applied to either beast and we can distinguish the two only by the fox being solitary and rapacious, and the jackal gregarious and a carrion-eater.
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Though it is not impossible that the names of the other musical instruments may have been taken over by the Semites from the Greeks at an early time, these words at any rate practically compel us to put the book, at the earliest, within the Greek period (i.e. after
Introduction to the Old Testament John Edgar McFadyen
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But, what Mohammed injected into the ancient tradition of the Semites is the concept of compassion within divine law.
Some Common Features of Islam and Buddhism: A Conversation with Snjezana Akpinar and Alex Berzin 2009
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I should stress right now that I am not making a moral equivalence: Holocaust Deniers are, for the most part, neo-Nazis and vicious anti-Semites, that is, evil people.
Dead-on Analysis from Red State Rabble - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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There have always been serious anti-Semites, that is people with Jews on the brain.
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In such cases it corresponds to [Hebrew: QRSH], which to the Semites is the epithet _par excellence_ of the divinity.
The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism Franz Cumont
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