prosemite
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[edit]prosemite (plural prosemites)
- (uncommon) Someone who favors Semitism. [19th c.]
- Synonym: philo-Semite
- Antonym: anti-Semite
- 1962, RL Tewari, A Critical Study of Loyalties (Galsworthy), page 148:
- Yet some people call him antisemite, others call him prosemite.
- 1994, Arlie Hoover, Friedrich Nietzsche: His Life and Thought, page 98:
- He certainly was no antisemite in the conventional sense, but then neither was he a prosemite; one could safely call him an anti-antisemite.
- 1884, Theosophical Society, The Theosophist, page 227:
- […] as his prosemite predilections must compel him to do so almost instinctively […]