Hamite
Americannoun
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(in the Bible) a descendant of Ham.
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Sometimes Offensive. a member of any of various peoples of northern and eastern Africa, such as the ancient Egyptians and modern Berbers, especially those speaking any non-Semitic Afroasiatic language.
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Etymology
Origin of Hamite
Example Sentences
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There can be no doubt, however, that at least the basis of the Egyptian cosmogony must have been the common property of all the Hamite nations, of which Egypt was the greatest and most permanent; and therefore in all probability derived from the ideas of creation which were current not long after the Deluge.
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We have the servile ornament, in which the executive is absolutely subjected to the inventive,—the ornament of the great Eastern nations, more especially Hamite, and all pre-Christian, yet thoroughly noble in its submissiveness.
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But it appears to me that the Celts and Cantabrians were like the Etruscans and Phenicians of Hamite Origin.
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He wrote back that the words were Egyptian or a kindred Hamite tongue.
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So Abram departed with Lot, his nephew, and Sarai, his wife, with all his cattle and substance, to the land of Canaan, then occupied by that Hamite race which had probably proved unfriendly to his family in Chaldea.
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