Judas Iscariot
Proper noun
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Proper noun
- (Christianity) One of the twelve disciples of Jesus in the New Testament, who betrayed Jesus into the hands of the chief priests for 30 pieces of silver.
- French: Judas Iscariote
- German: Judas Ischariot
- Italian: Giuda Iscariota
- Russian: Иуда Искариот
- Spanish: Judas Iscariote
Judas Iscariot (plural Judas Iscariots)
- A betrayer.
- 1771, Tobias Smollett, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, London: W. Johnston, Volume 2, p. 209,
- —Ah (said he) she’s a Judas Iscariot, and has betrayed me with a kiss […]
- 1969, The parliamentary debates
- It was far more generous treatment than they deserved, because, to speak frankly and strongly, these men had been the industrial Judas Iscariots to the rest of the working classes and to the working-class movement.
- 1771, Tobias Smollett, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, London: W. Johnston, Volume 2, p. 209,
- Spanish: Judas
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