Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- In the Bible, a young man who with Meshach and Shadrach emerged unharmed from the fiery furnace into which they were thrown by Nebuchadnezzar.
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- proper noun biblical One of the
captives in the Bible that came out of the fieryfurnace unharmed.
Etymologies
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Examples
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I called her Abednego the other day, but she didn't know what I meant. "
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I called her Abednego the other day, but she didn't know what I meant. "
Her Father's Daughter Gene Stratton-Porter 1893
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But as the examination frequently got no farther, the word Abednego got associated in my mind with very agreeable ideas, and it ran through my ears like "Shadrach, Meshach, and
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864
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"Abednego" has written a reponse to Avalos '"review" of The Privileged Planet.
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Mother Sister's son Shadrack, and Benny Pride, the daughter of an arsonist, are plays on the names of Shadrach and Abednego, two of the three men who survived the fiery furnace in the Old Testament book of Daniel.
New Stage Production Explores Black Church Arsons The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Mother Sister's son Shadrack, and Benny Pride, the daughter of an arsonist, are plays on the names of Shadrach and Abednego, two of the three men who survived the fiery furnace in the Old Testament book of Daniel.
New Stage Production Explores Black Church Arsons The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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"Abednego Danner Professor, father of Hugo Danner by his unnamed wife."
Archive 2010-01-01 Sean Levin 2010
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Mother Sister's son Shadrack, and Benny Pride, the daughter of an arsonist, are plays on the names of Shadrach and Abednego, two of the three men who survived the fiery furnace in the Old Testament book of Daniel.
New Stage Production Explores Black Church Arsons Bryan Maygers 2010
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"Abednego Danner Professor, father of Hugo Danner by his unnamed wife."
Of Wikis and Wold Newton: Part 4 Sean Levin 2010
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Only people standing in the blast furnace, like Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, can understand what the situation in Israel is really like, and really comprehend the true nature of the speaker's enemy.
Ray Suarez: Account From The Set Of "Jerusalem: Center Of The World" 2009
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