Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The claim of the Samaritans that the Jews were schismatics, the true site of God's sanctuary and worship being Mount Gerizim in Samaria (and not Mount Zion), as shown in their copy of the Pentateuch, which in Deut. xxvii. 4 reads Gerizim for Ebal.
- noun An idiom or expression peculiar to the Samaritans, or to their version of the Pentateuch, which they asserted to be older than the Jewish.
- noun Charitableness; philanthropy; benevolence, like that of the good Samaritan.
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Compassion can't only be found in positive samaritanism.
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