Crossword-Solution: HOLOFERNES
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| JUDITH, victim of | 3 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
Pertaining to, or situated near, the back, or dorsum, of an
animal or of one of its parts; notal; tergal; neural; as, the dorsal
fin of a fish; the dorsal artery of the tongue; -- opposed to ventral.
Hint 2 anagram
LOSDAR
Hint 3 another clue
BACK ___!
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Sentences with HOLOFERNES (5)
Arriving all confused among the rest With hooded brows I crept into the hall, And, couched behind a Judith, underneath The head of Holofernes peeped and saw.
The pulpit, that safe and sacred organ of sedition, resounded with the names of Pharaoh and Holofernes; the public discontent was inflamed by the hope or promise of a glorious deliverance; and the seditious saints were tempted to promote the accomplishment of their own predictions.
Bugge regards this widely diffused ballad as based on the Apocryphal legend of Judith and Holofernes.
This is where his Judith holds herself to be so smirched and degraded by the proffer of a reverent love (she being devoted to one only, a dead man who had her heart) that thenceforth no bar is left to her entire self-sacrifice to the loathed enemy Holofernes.
Can you tell me by your wit What was a month old at Cain’s birth, that’s not five weeks old as yet? HOLOFERNES.