Mordecai
Americannoun
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(in the Bible) the cousin and guardian of Esther who delivered the Jews from the destruction planned by Haman.
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a male given name.
noun
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Example Sentences
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Mordecai Kaplan defined God as a spiritual and ethical power within us that urges us to do good.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 24, 2026
The secretly-Jewish Queen Esther and her cousin Mordecai foil Haman's plan when Esther reveals her Jewishness to her husband and convinces the king to spare her people from genocide.
From Salon ● Mar. 15, 2025
Then he heard Howard University President Mordecai Wyatt Johnson’s lecture on Mahatma Gandhi, whose conceptions of nonviolent protest as a “love-force,” along with Christian love, animated a transformative movement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2024
But Mordecai, who missed three games with a broken throwing hand, threw for just six touchdowns during the regular season.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 1, 2024
Siobhan rubbed her bracelet for luck as Reggie warmed up with his teammate, Mordecai.
From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson
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