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Jewry
//ˈd͡ʒʊəɹi// noun
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Jewish people considered collectively. countable, uncountable
"Hitler attempted to murder all of European Jewry."
- 2 Jews collectively wordnet
- 3 The quarter of a town or city inhabited either partially or exclusively by Jews; historically, its main buildings were the synagogue, the ritual bath or mikve, the kosher-oriented butchery and bakery, etc. countable, historical, uncountable
"The Nazis who murdered Katzenelson also burned the entire Jewry of Radoshkowitz—Mane’s birthplace and burialplace in the vicinity of Vilna."
- 4 Judaism. countable, obsolete, uncountable
- 5 The land of the Jews; Judea. countable, obsolete, uncountable
"And all the londe off iewry, and they of Jerusalem went out unto hym, and were all baptised of hym in the ryver Jordan [...]."
Etymology
From Middle English Jewery, from Old French juerie. By surface analysis, Jew + -ry.
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