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Definition of Jaffar

1. Noun. Indonesian terrorist and Islamic militant who commands the Laskar Jihad; uses violence to achieve political ends (1965-2000).

Lexicographical Neighbors of Jaffar

Literary usage of Jaffar

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

1. The Heart of Oak Books by Kate Stephens (1895)
"Jaffar, the Barmecide, the good Vizier, The poor man's hope, the friend without a peer, Jaffar was dead, slain by a doom unjust; And guilty Haroun, ..."

2. The Progressive Road to Reading by Georgine Burchill, William Louis Ettinger, Edgar Dubs Shimer (1919)
"Jaffar Jaffar, the Barmecide, the good Vizier, The poor man's hope, the friend without a peer, Jaffar was dead, slain by a doom unjust; And guilty Haroun, ..."

3. The Home Book of Verse, American and English, 1580-1918 by Burton Egbert Stevenson (1918)
"Jaffar, the Barmecide, the good Vizier, The poor man's hope, the friend without a peer, Jaffar was dead, slain by a doom unjust; And guilty Haroun, ..."

4. English Verse by Richard Henry Stoddard (1890)
"Jaffar. (Inscribed to the memory of Shelley.) Shelley! take this to thy dear memory ! To praise the generous is to think of thee. Jaffar, the Barmecide ..."

5. Open Sesame!: Poetry and Prose for School-days by Blanche Wilder Bellamy (1898)
"Jaffar, the Barmecide, the good vizier, The poor man's hope, the friend without a peer, - Jaffar was dead, slain by a doom unjust! ..."

6. Independent First[-sixth] Reader by James Madison Watson (1868)
"cried he; " From bonds far worse Jaffar delivered me; From wants, from shames, ... How can I pay Jaffar ?" 4. Haroun, who felt that on a soul like this The ..."

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