Jewry
English
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman juerie. Synchronically analyzable as Jew + -ry.
Pronunciation
Noun
Jewry (plural Jewries)
- The Jewish population of the world collectively; the Jewish population of a locale. [from 14th c.]
- Hitler attempted to murder all of European Jewry.
- 1989, Geoffrey Alderman, London Jewry and London Politics, 1889-1986
- 2019 July 17, Talia Lavin, “When Non-Jews Wield Anti-Semitism as Political Shield”, in GQ[1]:
- Jews and Israel are not synonymous; nor is support for Palestine synonymous with anti-Semitism; nor is questioning the orthodoxy of the Republican party, which the majority of us do with relish, an insult to Jewry.
- (obsolete) The land of the Jews; Judea. [14th-17th c.]
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Mark I:
- And all the londe off iewry, and they of Jerusalem went out unto hym, and were all baptised of hym in the ryver Jordan [...].
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- 1833, W. B. Sandys (ed.), "God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen" in Christmas Carols Ancient and Modern, p. 102.
- In Bethlehem, in Jury / This blessed babe was born
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Mark I:
Synonyms
Translations
Jews in general, the Jewish population of a locale
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the land of Jews (obsolete) — see Judea