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Definition of Holocausts
1. holocaust [n] - See also: holocaust
Lexicographical Neighbors of Holocausts
Literary usage of Holocausts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chicago's Awful Theater Horror by Marshall Everett (1904)
"OTHER holocausts. Since the time that civilized man first met with fellow ...
But the grand total of persons killed in theater holocausts is large and the ..."
2. The Manna of the Soul: Meditations for Each Day of the Year by Paolo Segneri (1892)
"To love one's neighbour as oneself is a greater thing than all holocausts and
sacrifices (St. Mark xii. 33). I. Consider first, that not every act thou dost ..."
3. A Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire (1843)
"one, sacrificed you to God ; we have j burned you as holocausts—for I will not
follow your example, and dissemble that we have offered up sacrifices of ..."
4. Practical Handbook for the Study of the Bible and of Bible Literature by Michael Seisenberger (1911)
"According to the reasons for offering the sacrifices they were distinguished
as (1) holocausts, or burnt offerings; (2) peace offerings; (3) sin offerings; ..."
5. Origines Hebrææ: the antiquities of the Hebrew republick by Thomas Lewis (1835)
"V. holocausts, or whole burnt offerings. holocausts, (as the Greeks speak,) or
victims wholly consumed by fire, were the most ancient sacrifices that were ..."
6. Ṿayyiḳra = Leviticus by Marcus Moritz Kalisch (1867)
"... but all the blood, as was the case with holocausts and thank-offerings, no
part being, as in the sin-offerings, poured out at the bottom of the altar. ..."
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