Citations:Semitism

possibly the sense "idiom of Hebrew"

 * 1907, James Alan Montgomery, The Samaritans, the earliest Jewish sect: their history, theology and literature, page 315:
 * To this period, and as its greatest monument, we have to assign the Samaritan Targum; vernacular Semitism was again raising its head against Hellenic influence, and asserted to itself the right of translating into the vernacular the obsolete
 * 1866 (1911 edition), Abraham Geiger, Judaism and Its History, page 390:
 * You looked in vain for traces of Semitism and even for echoes of the language of Canaan. My German style should abound with very rude Hebraisms and bad errors of speech, to be acknowledged as Jewish by you.

probably the sense "Semiticness"

 * 1987, Near East/South Asia Report, issue 87044, page 39:
 * It is clear that there is an alliance between the Atlantist Americans and British directed against the Arab nation, against Islam, against Arab semitism.
 * 2008, Carl Raschke, GloboChrist (The Church and Postmodern Culture), page 111:
 * Because Westerners are de facto Germanic peoples linguistically bound in their destiny to the history of “Romanness,” their purpose in history can never be reconciled with that of Islamic Semitism. Islam must overcome the West

Semitic (Abrahamic) monotheism

 * 1996, Kashyap Marg, Anwar Shaikh: Greek Mysticism,, Usenet:
 * If, the Greeks had borrowed these precepts from the Middle East as their advocates think under the influence of Christianity, they would have believed in a Creator God, the hallmark of Semitism.
 * 1999, PPT, Re: Expanding the Empire With Conversion / by Sultan Shahin,, Usenet:
 * Very Good article but an equally bad finish arising from the hugely mistaken belief that there is something inherently beautiful about the Semitic religions less its killer conversion zeal. Hindus have to take up the urgent task of reconverting the victims of Semitism[.]

unsorted citations

 * 1897, Johannes Heinrich August Ebrard, Apologetics, Or, The Scientific Vindication of Christianity
 * Nothing can be more perverse than the assertion that Islamic Semitism, by reason of its monotheism derived from natural Semitic tendencies (!), formed for the negro races a bridge over to Christianity.
 * 1934, Ingram Hughes, Anti-Semitism: organized anti-Jewish sentiment; a world survey:
 * Exposure of Jews to Perso-Aryan Culture It is at the time these Judean "Israelites" (now, for the first time[,] called Jews) came under Persian rule, that Jewish Semitism first contacts Aryanism face to face. And the Jews profited most by that contact
 * 1964, Hardev Bahadur Singh, Missionary, issues 18-19, page 18:
 * But an utterly new phenomenon in the shape of Islamic Semitism came to India for which the Hindu race had no adequate reply, such as it had given in the past to the hordes of invaders from the north-west, Greeks, Sakas and Huns.
 * 1996, Ian Samuels, Re: Alexander Heads South,, Usenet:
 * The "Hellenistic" influences on these regions, especially in later antiquity, would probably consist of Persian dualism leavened with a liberal does of Ethiopian Semitism[.]
 * 2000, Alessandro Bausani, Religion in Iran: From Zoroaster to Baha'Ullah,page 131:
 * The first, which could be termed "racist," consists in taking for granted an abstract, Arab "Semitism" which gave rise to Islam and which would have been constitutionally incapable of admitting ideas such as those of incarnation or emanation
 * 2006, Stefan Arvidsson, Aryan Idols: Indo-European Mythology as Ideology and Science ISBN 0226028607
 * Above all, it was the Romans who saw to it that Christianity became free of the last remains of Jewish Semitism:
 * 2007, Bernard Reuter, Questions of Assimilation Within the Reception of Victor Klemperer ISBN 0549209549, page 140
 * This is significant in the light of rising Muslim fundamentalism and increasing conflicts at geographical and ideological points of contact between the Far East, Arab and Jewish Semitism, and the Western world.
 * 2010, Thomas Paul Bonfiglio, Mother Tongues and Nations, page 178:
 * In copying the Hindu traditions, Christian Semitism added whatever it wanted