Sentence example with the word 'moloch'

moloch

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Definition n. a tyrannical power to be propitiated by human subservience or sacrifice

Last update: June 19, 2015


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Some modern mythologists regard the Minotaur as a solar personification and a Greek adaptation of the Baal-Moloch of the Phoenicians.   [Please select]

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To Moloch,--another name for the fire-god,--"who rejoiced in human victims and in parents' tears," they offered human sacrifices.   [Please select]

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(_See_ Muhammad) Mokanna, ii, 31 Moloch, i, 288 Moltke, Count, ii, 481 Moluccas, ii, 187 Mommsen, i, 454, 464, 480, 483, 500 Monarchy, i, 263, 357, ii, 143, 211, 215, 216-17, 230, 236, 248, 251, 307, 339, 372 Monasteries (and monasticism), i, 609 _sqq.   [Please select]

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And we see again that back of the fierce Moloch of war stands the still fiercer god of Commercialism.   [Please select]

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Thus innocent boys are morally shanghaied into patriotism, and the military Moloch strides conquering through the Nation.   [Please select]

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It's not the terrible old Moloch of my geographies that gobbled up cities and peoples.   [Please select]

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