Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to the patriarch Abraham: as, the Abrahamic covenant.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to Abraham, the patriarch.
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Examples
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The world would have been a better place if all 'abrahamic' religions--judaism, christianity and islam--had stayed in their flea-bitten desert and left the rest of us alone.
What are you? Lionheart 2007
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I had a teacher that sincerely believed Islam was not an abrahamic religion, teaching a class about the historical interactions between Islam and Christianity.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Open Writing Forum 2009
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Even your abrahamic faith has gone the process of changing.
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The 'particular variety of theism' that views humans as special is, what – all of the abrahamic traditions and a large chunk of the varied eastern traditions?
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I find it quite sad that so many adherents of the three abrahamic religions do not pay any or enough attention to their spiritual basis for environmental thinking.
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YOu obviously dont understand how Dawkins can reject the idea of an abrahamic God, based on science…
Richard Dawkins, raving incoherently « Anglican Samizdat 2009
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Well let's have it right, muslims, christians, jews religions of the abrahamic books, not much difference between the three.
Al Qaeda’s silent mobile Luton army – ‘The Luton Moslem Taxi cartel’ Lionheart 2007
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But there are large and growing populations of religious believers in the country that aren't abrahamic, and once in a while I wouldn't mind it acknowledged at least in passing.
Philocrites: Coming to you live, from Nauvoo, Illinois. 2006
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But if we just stop and realize that the Judeo-Christian-Muhammedan religious they are all abrahamic..
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Like the two abrahamic religions that came before it, Islam is a beautiful religion when practiced as it was intended to be practiced.
CNN.com 2011
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