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Holy Bible

American  

noun

  1. Bible.


Holy Bible British  

noun

  1. another name for the Bible

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Anarchic lyricist Richey Edwards, who along with bass player Nicky Wire had been the chief songwriter behind their most recent and most iconoclastic album, 1994's The Holy Bible, was suddenly missing.

From BBC Sep. 10, 2021

Hammons’s “The Holy Bible: Old Testament” is a copy of Arturo Schwarz’s “The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp,” rebound in black leather.

From The New Yorker Dec. 2, 2019

What remained of Whittney’s belongings could fit into two suitcases, two boxes and a tote bag: clothes, jewelry, makeup, fingernail polish, a journal and the Holy Bible.

From Washington Times Jan. 10, 2016

The word “rapture” isn’t used in the Holy Bible, but the idea of Judgment Day appears in all the Canonical gospels.

From Time Jun. 29, 2014

She had never dared to mention books in this household, where there was no book at all except the Holy Bible.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare

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