Definition of Bethesdas

1. Noun. (plural of Bethesda) ¹

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Definition of Bethesdas

1. bethesda [n] - See also: bethesda

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bethesdas

beth hamidrash
bethabara
bethabara wood
bethanechol
bethanechol chloride
bethanidine
bethanidine sulfate
bethank
bethanked
bethanking
bethanks
bethatch
bethel
bethels
bethesda
bethesdas (current term)
bethink
bethinking
bethinks
bethonged
bethorn
bethorned
bethorning
bethorns
bethought
bethrall
bethralls
bethreatened
bethrong
bethroth

Literary usage of Bethesdas

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1902)
""Jocasta was an angel visiting the waters ; but at which of the bethesdas? She was puzzled more and more ; and, as her way always is, looked the more ..."

2. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen (1898)
"Jocasta was an angel visiting the waters; but at which of the bethesdas 1 She was puzzled more and more; and, as her way always is, looked the more innocent ..."

3. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1898)
"... an angel visiting the waters ; but at which of the bethesdas? She was puzzled more and more; and, as her way always is, looked the more innocent and ..."

4. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1895)
"He is full of indignation at the hard noviciate that he endured in their bethesdas and Blind Asylums, thanks to his grandmother Sykes, the Plymouth sister, ..."

5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1875)
"helped into the healing bethesdas. Give us the invigorating shock of sudden exhilaration experienced by the jaded mind and worn frame as you start on the ..."

6. Annual Report by Correctional Association of New York (1871)
"Or, convert your prisons into bethesdas for morally " impotent folk," there to be cared for till " made whole of whatsoever disease they have. ..."

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