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  • 81enemy — [13] An enemy is literally someone who is ‘not a friend’. The word comes, via Old French enemi, from Latin inimīcus, a compound formed from the prefix in ‘not’ and amīcus ‘friend’ (source of English amicable and related to English amiable). The… …

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  • 82unfriendly — a. 1. Unkind, hostile, inimical, malevolent, antagonistic, ill disposed. 2. Unfavorable, inimical, adverse, hostile …

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  • 83enemy — [13] An enemy is literally someone who is ‘not a friend’. The word comes, via Old French enemi, from Latin inimīcus, a compound formed from the prefix in ‘not’ and amīcus ‘friend’ (source of English amicable and related to English amiable). The… …

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  • 84inimicality — inimˈicalness or inimicalˈity noun • • • Main Entry: ↑inimical …

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  • 85in|im|i|ca|ble — «ihn IHM uh kuh buhl», adjective. = inimical. (Cf. ↑inimical) …

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  • 86ANTISEMITISM — ANTISEMITISM, a term coined in 1879, from the Greek ἁντί = anti, and Σημ = Semite by the German agitator wilhelm marr to designate the then current anti Jewish campaigns in Europe. Antisemitism soon came into general use as a term denoting all… …

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  • 87CONSERVATION — Introduction In consequence of the establishment in Israel of a Ministry for the Environment it is appropriate to take stock of the deep concern for the environment and its conservation which, from its earliest documents onwards, infuses Jewish… …

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  • 88CRAFTS — In the Bible Genesis 4:2, 17, 20–22 describes Cain and four of his descendants as the first to engage in crafts. Cain worked the land, Enoch engaged in building, Jubal, in music, Jabal (like Abel) was a shepherd, and Tubal Cain worked with metals …

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  • 89EreẒ ISRAEL – SECOND TEMPLE — ptolemaic rule seleucid rule the hasmonean revolt independent judea hasmonean rule the roman province Herod s Rule under the procurators …

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  • 90MODERN TIMES – TO 1880 — introduction dawn of the enlightenment influence of mercantilist absolutism on jewish status arguments for toleration moses mendelssohn egalitarianism and emancipation in the u.s. the french revolution napoleon bonaparte and the french sanhedrin… …

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