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Definition of Leviathan
1. Noun. The largest or most massive thing of its kind. "They were assigned the leviathan of textbooks"
2. Noun. Monstrous sea creature symbolizing evil in the Old Testament.
Definition of Leviathan
1. n. An aquatic animal, described in the book of Job, ch. xli., and mentioned in other passages of Scripture.
Definition of Leviathan
1. Adjective. Very large; gargantuan. ¹
2. Noun. (Bible) A large sea monster which guards the gates of hell at the bottom of the sea. ¹
3. Noun. Something large; behemoth. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Leviathan
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Leviathan
Literary usage of Leviathan
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Religious Thought in England, from the Reformation to the End of Last by John Hunt (1870)
"When the ' leviathan' appeared, the Bishop of Derry could not resist the ...
He wrote a treatise called ' The Catching of the leviathan,' and with a great ..."
2. Pleasures of an Absentee Landlord, and Other Essays by Samuel McChord Crothers (1916)
"THE TAMING OF leviathan frontispiece of Hobbes's " leviathan " A contains a ...
leviathan represents sheer force, without-pity and without respect for the ..."
3. Pleasures of an Absentee Landlord, and Other Essays by Samuel McChord Crothers (1916)
"THE TAMING OF leviathan THE frontispiece of Hobbes's " leviathan " contains a
... leviathan represents sheer force, without pity and without respect for the ..."
4. History of the Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1656 by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1903)
"The historian is mainly interested in the leviathan as a sign of reaction against
prevailing beliefs, and will especially note that whilst in theory Hobbes ..."
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