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What is an Ishmaelite?

What is an Ishmaelite? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Any descendant of Ishmael.
  2. (by extension) An outcast.
  3. An Arab Muslim. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
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This feeling had been accentuated by the Ishmaelite life he had led from his puppyhood.
But sensuousness and lawlessness are everywhere the stamp of the Ishmaelite.
We can see a parallel in the actions of Joseph's brothers, the Ishmaelite traders, and Portiphar's wife in what happens in human trafficking today.
He wanders like a wild Ishmaelite, in a world of which he is as the spiritual light, either the guidance or the misguidance!
Of the Ishmaelite tribes, Kedar must have been one of the most important, and thus in later times the name came to be applied to all the wild tribes of the desert.
An Ishmaelite among the farm stock, they are shunned and hated by every living thing, when at large.

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