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Sadducee

noun
1.
A member of an ancient Jewish sect around the time of Jesus; opposed to the Pharisees.






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... photo-plans of the enemy's trenches; the Supply; the Staff, who collect and note all things, and are very properly chaffed; and, be sure, the Interpreter, who, by force of questioning prisoners, naturally develops into a Sadducee. It is their little asides to each other, the slang, and the half-words which, if one understood, instead of blinking drowsily at one's plate, would give the day's history in little. But tire and the difficulties of a sister (not a foreign) tongue cloud everything, and one goes to billets amid ...
— France At War - On the Frontier of Civilization • Rudyard Kipling



Words linked to "Sadducee" :   Hebrew, Israelite, Jew, Sadducean



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