Phoenicianness en · NOUN
Etymology
From Phoenician + -ness.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The quality or characteristic of being Phoenician.
Moscati (1988) saw Phoenician-ness in their art and architecture, but this observation was mostly based on material postdating the eighth century BC.
2018, Trade and Civilisation, page 224:It is interesting that the group most insistent on the Phoenicianness and non-Arabness of Lebanon, and that understands Lebanon as a Christian enclave entrenched in a hostile Arab world, then turns this connection into a potential financial opportunity.
2023, Lorenzo Cañás Bottos, Tanja Plasil, “When Heritage Becomes Horizon: The Acquisition of Extra-Territorial Citizenship among Lebanese in Argentina”, in Nationalités multiples : la mobilité en héritage et comme horizon, →DOI:[...] its "Phoenicianness" relatively unmixed with the surrounding populations.
1983, Afro-Hispanic Review, page 23:[...] their Phoenicianness, these colonies were obviously commercial settlements, involved in the trade between Babylonia and Oman and India.
1991, Hellinistic Phoenicia, page 194:[...] the Phoenicianness of this 'Greek' novel.
2003, Leucippe and Clitophon, page xix:
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fr phénicité (Translations) · es fenicidad (Translations) · it fenicità (Translations) · fr phénicianité (Translations)