Crossword-Solution: NAZARITE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Nazarite | n. | A Jew bound by a vow to lave the hair uncut, to abstain from wine and strong drink, and to practice extraordinary purity of life and devotion, the obligation being for life, or for a certain time. The word is also used adjectively. |
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| NAZARITE | anagram | ATRAZINE |
We have 2 clues for the answer “NAZARITE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Hebrew religious devotee | 1 answer |
| Abstainer | 35 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETEAR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with NAZARITE (5)
The hole in the wall was high and wide When he bore away old Gaza's pride Into the deep of the night:-- The bold Jack Johnson Israelite,-- Samson-- The Judge, The Nazarite.
Yes, to smell pork, to eat of the habitation which your prophet, the Nazarite, conjured the devil into.
Sam: Shall I abuse this Consecrated gift Of strength, again returning with my hair After my great transgression, so requite Favour renew'd, and add a greater sin By prostituting holy things to Idols; A Nazarite in place abominable Vaunting my strength in honour to thir Dagon? 1360 Besides, how vile, contemptible, ridiculous, What act more execrably unclean, prophane? Chor: Yet with this strength thou serv'st the Philistines, Idolatrous, uncircumcis'd, unclean.
Those who meet him laugh, if they do not worse; for he is a Nazarite, one of a despised sect which rejects the books of Moses, devotes itself to abhorred vows, and goes unshorn while the vows endure.
When some hundreds were gone by, and it seemed the opportunity to so much as see the Nazarite was lost to the latter, up the river not far away they beheld a person coming towards them of such singular appearance they forgot all else.
Quotes with NAZARITE (1)
Dr. Murray points to the Nazarite system as what he calls an external scaffolding supporting human efforts at righteousness, reminding the participant that he is set apart. Christ, he said, needed no external reminder that the Father was His joy and that wine was not, that He was Life and was wholly Other from death, that He bore on Himself the shame that long hair but vaguely pointed to.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1970).