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Definition of Mark of Cain
1. Noun. The mark that God set upon Cain now refers to a person's sinful nature.
Definition of Mark of Cain
1. Noun. A stigma of shame ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mark Of Cain
Literary usage of Mark of Cain
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Train and Bank Robbers of the West: A Romantic But Faithful Story of by Augustus C. Appler (1882)
"THE mark of Cain!—"WE'VE GOT THE NAME WE'LL HAVE THE GAME. ... If they did not
bear visibly the mark of Cain upon their foreheads, they were nevertheless ..."
2. Wandering Jew by Moncure Daniel Conway (1881)
"THE mark of Cain. IN the Oberammergau Passion Play, where scenes from the New
Testament are preceded by tableaux from the Old, Cain killing Abel is made to ..."
3. Bible Defence of Slavery: And Origin, Fortunes, and History of the Negro Race by Josiah Priest (1852)
"... in point of blood and otherwise, refuted—mark of Cain— What it was—No black
men or negroes before the flood except one—Difference between the secreting ..."
4. Autobiography, a Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing Lives Ever (1829)
"... Corbeil—The removal of the I'ody—The accusing address—'Tis either he, or his
brothel—The crimina'ing wound—I hit upon the right man—The mark of Cain—The ..."
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