prosemite

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English

Etymology

pro- +‎ Semite

Noun

prosemite (plural prosemites)

  1. Someone who favors Semitism.
    • 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 []

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