Deuteronomy
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- Deuteronomic adjective
Etymology
Origin of Deuteronomy
< Late Latin Deuteronomium < Greek Deuteronómion ( see deutero-, -nomy); earlier Deutronome, Middle English Deutronomie < Late Latin
Example Sentences
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In Deuteronomy 10:19, the command is explicit: “You shall also love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.”
From Salon • Apr. 6, 2026
Deuteronomy 24:16 states: “Parents shall not be put to death for children, nor children be put to death for parents: a person shall be put to death only for his own crime.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 23, 2025
The actor enjoyed a decades-long career on the stage, famously playing the Cowardly Lion in “The Wiz” in the 1970s and feline leader Old Deuteronomy in the original Broadway production of “Cats.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 1, 2024
Herschmann’s backdrop during videotaped testimony has featured a baseball bat that says “JUSTICE,” a reference to this verse in Deuteronomy: “Follow justice and justice alone.”
From Washington Post • Jun. 22, 2022
He’d park himself on our dusty front-porch steps, fold his suit jacket neatly on the glider, roll up his sleeves, and read to me from the Psalms and Deuteronomy while I shelled beans.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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