Joan of Arc

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noun

1. Saint the Maid of Orléans, 1412?–31, French national heroine and martyr who raised the siege of Orléans.

Joan of Arc

noun

1. Joan of Arc, Saint?14121431FFrenchPOLITICS: national heroineRELIGION: saint Saint known as the Maid of Orléans; French name Jeanne d'Arc. ?1412–31, French national heroine, who led the army that relieved Orléans in the Hundred Years' War, enabling Charles VII to be crowned at Reims (1429). After being captured (1430), she was burnt at the stake as a heretic. She was canonized in 1920. Feast day: May 30

Joan of Arc

1. A French military leader of the fifteenth century, a national heroine who at the age of seventeen took up arms to establish the rightful king on the French throne. She claimed to have heard God speak to her in voices. These claims eventually led to her trial for heresy and her execution by burning at the stake. Joan of Arc is a saint of the Roman Catholic Church .

Example Sentences

Kershaw—whose other well-known sculpture was a weird rendering of Joan of Arc “in the flames”—died in 2010.

From The Daily Beast

Felt very martial and Joan-of-Arc-y as I stood on the walls with the flag flying over me and cannon all about.

From Project Gutenberg

There were Joan-of-Arc-like possibilities in that strongly-featured face.

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