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Definition of Judith
1. Noun. Jewish heroine in one of the books of the Apocrypha; she saved her people by decapitating the Assyrian general Holofernes.
2. Noun. An Apocryphal book telling how Judith saved her people.
Definition of Judith
1. Proper noun. (Hebrew female given name) ¹
2. Proper noun. A book of the Old Testament of some Christian Bibles; a book of the Vulgate Apocrypha. ¹
3. Proper noun. (biblical character) The protagonist of the book of Judith. ¹
4. Proper noun. (biblical character) A wife of Esau. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
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Literary usage of Judith
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)
"Another Judith by Mantegna in Collection of Earl of Pembroke. ... Judith,
half-length, with the head of Holofernes in a charger ; her maid looking on, ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"Judith: The contents of this book are briefly as follows: Nebuchadnezzar, ...
The distress having become very great, a beautiful widow, Judith by name, ..."
3. Southern Literary Messenger by Carnegie-Mellon University, School of Computer Science (1839)
"Since I have heard it at last,dear Judith, I will tell you that it gives me ...
Forget it, dear Judith, forever ; it shall never spring up to trouble us. ..."
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