Jewry Definition

jo͝orē
jewries
noun
Jewish people collectively.
American Jewry.
Webster's New World
A district inhabited only or mainly by Jews; ghetto.
Webster's New World
1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, II.27.
Josephus reporteth, that whilst the Romane warres continued in Jurie, passing by a place where certain Jewes had been crucified three dayes before, he knew thre of his friends amongst them [...].
Wiktionary

Jews in general; the Jewish population of a locale. [from 14th c.]

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Singular:
Jewry
Plural:
jewries

Origin of Jewry

Jewry Sentence Examples

  • The lecture-room was a church, St Lawrence Jewry, placed at his.

  • The communal organization of English Jewry is somewhat inchoate.

  • There is a reminder of them in the names of Jewry Street near the former and of Jewin Street near the latter place.

  • The earlier ones in some cases prohibited the lending of money on usury at all, as in a statute of Jewry of the reign of Edward I.; but the later statutes were chiefly confined to limiting the rate of interest.

  • The same year he married Elizabeth French, a niece of Oliver Cromwell; and he also became Tuesday lecturer at St Lawrence, Jewry.

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