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lingam

[ UK /lˈɪŋɡæm/ ]
NOUN
  1. the Hindu phallic symbol of Siva

How To Use lingam In A Sentence

  • His phallus, or lingam, enshrined in most Hindu temples, is worshipped and revered by the world's 300 million followers of the Hindu religion.
  • In consideration of non - Hindu guests, his father had made certain that his mother's brass deities and stone lingams stayed confined in the closed-off worship-room.
  • Some worship stones, borne on their heads; some hang lingams from their necks.
  • This lingam diminishes gradually as the moon wanes and increases as the moon grows.
  • By maintaining rigor in pricing deals, managing employee and nonemployee costs, collecting and conserving cash and moving work offshore," the company has improved its operating margin and profit, Chief Financial Officer S. Mahalingam said in a statement. Tata Consultancy Net Jumps on Cost Controls
  • Some monastic sects, such as the lingayats, wear stone lingams around their necks as a part of their sacred practice.
  • In particular, Hinduism and the lingam, or phallic symbol associated with the god Siva, are highlighted.
  • No review could do complete justice to the magnificent two-volume biography that has been so well-wrought by Michael Burlingame, but one way of paying tribute to it is to say that it introduces the elusive idea of destiny from the very start, and one means of illustrating this is to show how the earlier chapters continually prefigure, or body forth, the more momentous events that are to be dealt with in the later ones. Lincoln’s Emancipation
  • Anson Burlingame, who had been an envoy from the Chinese Emperor; Sir Samuel Baker, of London; Fifth Avenue
  • Within the cave is an icicle of natural ice formed in the shape of the ‘Lingam’.
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