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/ˈɪzrəlˌaɪt/ Listen

Israelite

noun

A native or inhabitant of the ancient kingdom of Israel.

A person belonging to the worldwide group claiming descent from Jacob (or converted to it) and connected by cultural or religious ties. Synonyms: Hebrew, Jew.

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"Israelite" Quotes from Famous Books

... invisible Church of Christ than to the literal and visible Israel. But Rome goes further than the Apostle: for in her anxiety to claim the higher sense for herself, she denies the lower altogether. No Romanist will hear with patience of any national restoration of Israel. And whether the Anglo-Israelite theory be true or false, it is certainly, as a ...

— Earl Hubert's Daughter - The Polishing of the Pearl - A Tale of the 13th Century • Emily Sarah Holt

... reposed a broad, shallow black box, divided into compartments, each filled with lesser gems and rare stones, which he was offering for sale; about him stood a little group of young Moors and one or two Turkish officers, with several of whom the old Israelite was haggling at once. ...

— The Sea-Hawk • Raphael Sabatini

... might truly be said to be "an Israelite indeed, in whom there was no guile." He had his peculiarities of character, but with all, was singularly good, and we cannot doubt that his prayers and his alms, had come up for a memorial before Him, ...

— The Annual Monitor for 1851 • Anonymous

... that the great statesman not infrequently showed the defects of his qualities. As one out of many cases may be cited his treatment of Eduard Lasker. This statesman during several years rendered really important services. Though an Israelite, he showed none of the grasping propensities so often ascribed to his race. He seemed to care nothing for wealth or show, lived very simply, and devoted himself to the public good as he understood ...

— Volume I • Andrew Dickson White

... house. As far as the firm had dirty, disagreeable, perplexing work to do, Mr. Fox was to do it. Whenever it came in contact with the majesty of the law and government, Mr. Fox was to represent it. Whenever some Israelite in whom was guile sought, on varied pretext, to wriggle out of the whole or part of a bill, the wary Mr. Fox met him on his own plane and with his own weapons, skirmished with him, ...

— What Can She Do? • Edward Payson Roe

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