Mordecai
[mawr-di-kahy, mawr-di-key-ahy]
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noun
the cousin and guardian of Esther who delivered the Jews from the destruction planned by Haman. Esther 2–8.
a male given name.
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Contemporary Examples of mordecai
Mordecai, a court player with an ear for intel (and a way to convey it to power), achieves some of that power.
Esther and Mordecai confront a hostile host society and an implacable bureaucracy.
Beside a statue of Mordecai Anielewicz, the hero of the Warsaw uprising, dripped a crude cartoon of an Auschwitz-bound train.
Historical Examples of mordecai
But Mordecai is not a fatalist whose creed paralyses his energies.
Expositor's Bible: Ezra, Nehemiah, and EstherWalter Adeney
Make a hard bargain with Mordecai, and ten to one but you are caught in his trap.
Mordecai was one of those who sat in the hall of the Temple, and he knew seventy languages.
Mordecai is an unruly specimen, and then there is Simeon, who never fails to have an answer ready.
Mordecai still shambles around and worships Mrs. Harrington.
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904Lucy Maud Montgomery
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