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Moloch

NOUN
  1. god of the Canaanites and Phoenicians to whom parents sacrificed their children
  2. a tyrannical power to be propitiated by human subservience or sacrifice
    duty has become the Moloch of modern life
    the great Moloch of war

How To Use Moloch In A Sentence

  • the great Moloch of war
  • The Javan gibbon (Hylobates moloch) is also critically endangered. Western Java rain forests
  • “Hear, King Moloch!” called Hasdrubal, lifting his swarthy arms to heaven, then striking them with his sword till the blood gushed down, “suffer us to escape this calamity and I vow thee even my daughter Tibaït, — a child in her tenth year, — she shall die in thy holy furnace a sacrifice.” A Victor of Salamis
  • Using such words as “catenae” (connected series), “timeous” (early), “moloch” (an object of sacrifice), and “corban” (an offering to God), Madame railed at the ethics of the press, which she continued to accuse of underplaying the dangers of communism. The Last Empress
  • Using such words as “catenae” (connected series), “timeous” (early), “moloch” (an object of sacrifice), and “corban” (an offering to God), Madame railed at the ethics of the press, which she continued to accuse of underplaying the dangers of communism. The Last Empress
  • The men are forbidden to offer up their seed to Moloch; and here the term seed is not metaphorical. A Philosophical Dictionary
  • What a worse than moloch deity is that, which expects an offering of reason, duty, and discretion, to be made to its shrine! Clarissa Harlowe
  • Using such words as “catenae” (connected series), “timeous” (early), “moloch” (an object of sacrifice), and “corban” (an offering to God), Madame railed at the ethics of the press, which she continued to accuse of underplaying the dangers of communism. The Last Empress
  • Of the primates, the endemic species Javan gibbon Hylobates moloch (CR) and Javan leaf monkey Presbytis comata (EN) occur locally along with the endemic silvered leaf monkey P. cristata, while crab-eating macaque Macaca fascicularis (LR) is found throughout the park. Ujung Kulon National Park and Krakatau Nature Reserve, Indonesia
  • The Bible warns against idol worship, of Moloch, for example, in which human beings, especially children, are sacrificed to appease or please a god.
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