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”
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She has seen that probably for centuries to come, all the contests of that Aceldama, the European World, will be contests between inveterate power and emerging right.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 by Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle
War made the South an Aceldama; reconstruction made it a Gehenna.
From The Women of the Confederacy by J. L. Underwood
Aceldama, a-sel′da-ma, n. a field of blood—the name given to the field outside Jerusalem bought with the blood-money of Jesus.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
They were glad to leave behind them this wild Aceldama.
From Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century by W. H. Davenport Adams
The eye of love proved keener than the eye of gratitude, and the Saxon lady, even in that Aceldama, knew her Harold.
From The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: from Marathon to Waterloo by Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy
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