Philo-semitism

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Interest in or appreciation of Jewish people, their history, or the influence of Judaism, particularly on the part of a gentile. uncountable

    "To an Englishman, German liberalism is a hybrid creature, lame of three legs and blind of one eye, and thus it is necessary to explain — if indeed explanation in its rational sense be possible — the position of the German Liberals in this matter of philo-Semitism."

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"To an Englishman, German liberalism is a hybrid creature, lame of three legs and blind of one eye, and thus it is necessary to explain — if indeed explanation in its rational sense be possible — the position of the German Liberals in this matter of philo-Semitism."

Etymology

From philo- + Semitism.

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