moloch
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 13
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- 15
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- 6
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Definition of moloch
3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
name
- An ancient Ammonite deity worshiped by the Canaanites, Phoenician and related cultures in North Africa and the Levant, often depicted with the head of a bull.
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name
- An ancient Ammonite deity worshiped by the Canaanites, Phoenician and related cultures in North Africa and the Levant, often depicted with the head of a bull.
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(figuratively)A person or thing demanding or requiring a very costly sacrifice.
“[W]e can't without wonder remember that horrid Invention projected in this place, but thanks be to God diſappointed, wherein there was not Reverence to the ſacred Bones of Princes, but all were at one blaſt to be offer'd up to Moloch.”
“[…] poor Johnny Tetterby staggering under his Moloch of an infant, the Juggernaut that crushes all his enjoyments.”
noun
- Any of species Moloch horridus of Australian lizards, sole species of the genus Moloch.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From the Proto-Semitic *malk- (“king”). The figurative sense derives from the Old Testament, in which it is alleged that the cult of Moloch involved the sacrifice of human children.
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