Example sentences for: semitist

How can you use “semitist” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Hans Winkler, the German Semitist, noted in 1935 that glossolalia, incantations, and children's chants all display certain common tendencies, namely, 1) the repetition of a given motif ( feemalator, jasperator; touchar souchar; astramuphar, astramuchur ), and 2), the economical use of the vocal apparatus.

  • There is no law against combining bogus, ad hoc , “foreign” words and the real thing in one breath, just as Keillor's narrator does in his “Altrusian” blessing, juxtaposing what is obviously nonsense next to genuine Latin ( domino ) and Hebrew ( shadrach, meshach, abednego ). Likewise, in ancient Greek magical texts snippets of Egyptian, Hebrew, Aramaic, Coptic, and Babylonian words and proper names commingle in happy abandon with endless concatenations of gibberish, producing a veritable Babelian babble to challenge the ingenuity of Indo-European and Semitist scholars alike two thousand years later, as they wrangle with these more-than-sesquipedalian creations of Greco-Egyptian magical fantasy.


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