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HOLOFERNES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(Apocrypha) the Assyrian general who was decapitated by the biblical heroine Judith
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
full general; general (a general officer of the highest rank)
Domain category:
Apocrypha (14 books of the Old Testament included in the Vulgate (except for II Esdras) but omitted in Jewish and Protestant versions of the Bible; eastern Christian churches (except the Coptic Church) accept all these books as canonical; the Russian Orthodox Church accepts these texts as divinely inspired but does not grant them the same status)
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