Absalom
Americannoun
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(in the Bible) the third and favorite son of David, who rebelled against his father and was slain by Joab.
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a first name: from a Hebrew word meaning “father of peace.”
noun
Example Sentences
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Mr Absalom said he had asked the review team to consider exhuming the bodies, so they can be examined in light of modern forensic techniques.
From BBC • Sep. 4, 2024
His father, Absalom Willis Robertson, served 34 years in Congress.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2023
But there wasn’t much talk about abolitionism, or Forten’s old friends, like Absalom Jones, founder of the African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas, or William Lloyd Garrison, editor of The Liberator newspaper.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 13, 2022
William Faulkner describes the Mason-Dixie in Absalom, Absalom! as “dead since 1865 and peopled with garrulous outraged baffled ghosts.”
From Slate • Aug. 28, 2021
As for Absalom Jones, Richard Allen, and the hundreds of other blacks who nursed the city’s sick, they suffered an even worse indignity.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
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