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Amorrhean
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English
Alternative forms
en Amorrhaean Amorrhæan<q:archaic>
Etymology
en :bor la:Amorrhaeus :af -an 1
adap en la:Amorrhaeus -an.
Pronunciation
en /æməˈɹiː.ən/
en iən 4
Noun
en Amorite
en 1895 The Works of John Knox 74 https://books.google.com/books?id=nwYNAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA74 For he saieth: “Thus saieth the Lord God to Jerusalem, Thy habitation and thy kinred is of Canaan; thy father was an Amorrhean, and thy mother an Hittite: an in thy nativitie, when thow wast born thy navill was not cutt, thow was not washed with water to soften thee; thow was not salted with salt, neither yet was thow swadled in clowtes.”
en 1900 Victor Hugo Dramas 51 https://books.google.com/books?id=YLM0AQAAMAAJ He made himself a Tyrian; Edom’s sonsLaughed loud at her abandonment.The Amorrheans trembled with delightTo see the demons pushing him their way.
en 1942 The New Review 204 https://books.google.com/books?id=kIQ9AAAAYAAJ [...] the Decretum Gratianum where it was said, ‘It is well to remark for what reasons the children of Israel waged war against the Amorrheans. It was because the Amorrheans refused the right of passage, a right which it is but equitable to give, according to the just rules of the rights of mankind.’
Adjective
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en Amorite