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Meaning of Abrahamic | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2
/eɪ.bɹəˈhæm.ɪk/

Definitions

  1. Pertaining to Abraham, the patriarch.
    not-comparable
  2. Descended from the religious tradition of Abraham.
    not-comparable

Translations

Deutsch abrahamitisch
Français abrahamique
Português abraâmico

Examples

“[T]he Noachic and Abrahamic churches are connected by Shem, and the other long-lived patriarchs, who existed before the apostasy of Noah's posterity, and survived it”
“Paul's faith was at this crisis in his spiritual illumination more Abrahamic than Christlike in its character.”
“Judaism, Christianity, Islam and the Baháʼí Faith are all Abrahamic religions.”
“[The messianic] does not belong properly to any Abrahamic religion (even if I may here continue “entre nous” for essential reasons of language and of place, of culture, and of provisional rhetorical and historical strategy of which I will speak later, to give to it names inscribed by the Abrahamic religions).”
“Most anthropologists, myself at the forefront, are doubtless incredibly naive about the nature of Christianity and provincial with respect to the depth and riches of Abrahamic-based theory for the analysis of religious phenomena more broadly no less than for philosophy.”
“Christianity, not Islam, was the first of the Abrahamic cults to come to the Sudan.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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