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Ormazd

or Or·muzd

[ awr-muhzd ]

Ormazd

/ ˈɔːməzd /

noun

  1. Zoroastrianism the creative deity, embodiment of good and opponent of Ahriman Also calledAhura Mazda
“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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Word History and Origins

Origin of Ormazd1

from Persian, from Avestan Ahura-Mazda, from ahura spirit + mazdā wise
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Example Sentences

They were averse to all temples or personification of the material things, or of Ormazd.

Our wise men say that it was an evil day for the kings of this land when they allowed these men to wean their minds from Ormazd and set up their idols in Babylon.

Charles IX., at bay between Catharine's commanding eyes and Marguerite's supplicating look, as if between the two opposing principles of good and evil, stood for an instant undecided; at last Ormazd won the day.

The Arsacid monarchs of Armenia allowed the Sacred Fire of Ormazd, which ought to have been kept continually burning, to go out; and we can scarcely suppose but that the Parthian Arsacidae shared their negligence.

It is not necessary to suppose that the Medes ever apostatized altogether from the worship of Ormazd, or formally surrendered their Dualistic faith.

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