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messiah

[ UK /mɛsˈa‍ɪ‍ə/ ]
[ US /məˈsaɪə/ ]
NOUN
  1. any expected deliverer

How To Use messiah In A Sentence

  • Here’s my take: I’ll stick with B.C. because Christ, in American usage, refers directly to Jesus of Nazareth as if it were his last name and not a title conferring Messiah-hood. No Uncertain Terms
  • In 6 B.C. he proceeded against the Pharisees who had vaticinated that, with the birth of the Messiah, the reign of Herod would come to the end.
  • I've seen leadership schools set out on the fringes, including one in an outpost of Jerusalem that teaches would-be messiahs to lead in the coming apocalypse.
  • The Holy Alliance was the joint labour of an unfortunate man who had suffered a terrible mental shock and who was trying to pacify his much-disturbed soul, and of an ambitious woman who after a wasted life had lost her beauty and her attraction and who satisfied her vanity and her desire for notoriety by assuming the rôle of self-appointed Messiah of a new and strange creed. The Story of Mankind
  • Religious scholars will recognize immediately that talk of "The Christ" or World Teacher his nothing to do with the Christian Messiah but a different chap called Maitreya or Djwahl Kuhl who, in the Christian religion has another name and who the Rolling Stones had sympathy for. Archive 2008-02-01
  • He had a preconceived notion of what a messiah should be like. Christianity Today
  • ‘In Judaism, we believe the messiah has not come yet,’ he says.
  • CURT LEVIANT'S novel about Reb Nachman of Bratslav, The Man Who Thought He Was Messiah, was a Nominee for the National Jewish Book Award.
  • Firstly, Christ and his disciples healed people physically as an attestation that Christ was indeed the promised Messiah.
  • But dreams, after all, are dreams, and as we are busy producing double-faced politicians, there are no messiahs around to translate dreams into realities.
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