Aceldama
Americannoun
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(in the Bible) the place near Jerusalem purchased with the bribe Judas took for betraying Jesus.
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any place of slaughter and bloodshed.
noun
Etymology
Origin of Aceldama
From Latin, from Greek Akeldamá, from Aramaic ḥăgēl dəmā “field of blood”
Example Sentences
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From this time, this field was called "Aceldama," a Hebrew word, meaning the Field of Blood: now the Christians in those parts call it "the holy field."
From "Granny's Chapters" (on scriptural subjects) by Ross, Lady Mary
He bought with it an estate, to which the people gave the name of Aceldama, from that accursed field which was purchased with the price of innocent blood.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron
They were glad to leave behind them this wild Aceldama.
From Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century by Adams, W. H. Davenport
Little wonder those who passed through the fiery Aceldama that was to come, afterwards looked back on this scene as the fairest in their lives.
From Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)
War made the South an Aceldama; reconstruction made it a Gehenna.
From The Women of the Confederacy by Underwood, J. L.
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