jinn
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of jinn
1675–85; plural of Arabic jinnī demon
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It is mostly women who visit healers - believing that they can solve problems and cure illness by expelling evil spirits known as "jinn".
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2023
“The jinn was instructing him to behave in that alleged behavior,” the psychiatrist added.
From Seattle Times ● May 2, 2019
She has a cinematic, out-of-body, approach to songwriting; Eilish imagines herself as a sneaky jinn or a bored wallflower and then writes what she sees.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 26, 2019
"There has to be a tipping point. You can't put the jinn back in the bottle. All of us have either kept quiet out of fear or shame or complicity, but now we can't."
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2017
“Long ago,” she says, “when man knew not greed, malice, tribe, nor clan, jinn walked the earth.”
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
After his arrest, the married father-of-four claimed jinns called Robert and Rita were responsible for the deaths.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2021
For centuries there have been stories that it harboured jinns, or genies.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2021
An eight-week trial heard Metwally, an NHS anaesthetist and chronic pain specialist, believed Ms Wilson was possessed supernatural spirits known as jinns.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2021
While his previous novels were peopled with telepathic children, vengeful jinns, and levitating gardeners, The Golden House is tethered to terra firma.
From Slate ● Sep. 21, 2017
All night long it panted with its heavy labors—as if the jinns that lifted those giant pump beams were vying with one another in a desperate endeavor.
From Flowing Gold by Beach, Rex Ellingwood
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