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moloch
has definitions from the fields of zoology,religion,Phoenician
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[ noun ] (religion,Phoenician) god of the Ammonites and Phoenicians to whom parents sacrificed their children
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[ noun ] a tyrannical power to be propitiated by human subservience or sacrifice
Examples : "the great Moloch of war" "duty has become the Moloch of modern life"- Norman Douglas Related terms |
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[ noun ] (zoology) any lizard of the genus Moloch
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