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Definition of Holofernes
1. Noun. (Apocrypha) the Assyrian general who was decapitated by the biblical heroine Judith.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Holofernes
Literary usage of Holofernes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings edited by John Denison Champlin, Charles Callahan Perkins (1887)
"Judith, half-length, with the head of Holofernes in a charger ; her maid looking
on, and a soldier in armour asleep. Painted about 1510 (? ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"Holofernes now attacks the Jewish people, who had recently returned from ithe
captivity ... Holofernes directs his main attack upon the fortress Bethulia, ..."
3. Encyclopædia Biblica: A Critical Dictionary of the Literary, Political and by Thomas Kelly Cheyne (1901)
"After an interval he appoints Holofernes general over his army, and sends him
against those nations which had refused their aid, with orders to spare none ..."
4. Woman; Her Position, Influence, and Achievement Throughout the Civilized by William C. King (1902)
"SLAYER OF THE ASSYRIAN GENERAL Holofernes. / I \ HE little state of Palestine
was the only available highway between JL those two great ancient empires, ..."
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