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3 Abrahamism vocab words (Christianity/Judaism/Islaam)
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Babylon
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synonyms: Sheshach ???
tags: [abrahamism] [geography]
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Definition:[2300 BC - 1000 AD] An ancient city just south of Bagdad on the Euphrates river. The city was famous for its wealth, luxury and vice. Party town, Mesopotamia.
map: By Guimard CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ )](modified by ajvocab.com - the Euphrates river is highlighted in green. The approximate location of Babylon is in red)
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Dr. Goldberg: Behold! The whore of Newport... daughter of Babylon... the harlot of the harbor...
Comedy Central. Another Period, season 3: Sex Nickelodeon (2018)
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In the Reign of King Moabdar, there was a young Man, a Native of Babylon, by name Zadig; who was not only endowed by Nature with an uncommon Genius, but born of illustrious Parents, who bestowed on him an Education no ways inferior to his Birth.
Voltaire. Zadig.
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"The pestilence will come upon ye, and ye shall die o’ your sins, unless ye be cleansed! Ye’ve welcomed the whore of Babylon into yer midst”
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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Ah, Konstantin Dmitrievitch! So you’ve come back to our corrupt Babylon," she said, giving him her tiny, yellow hand, and recalling what he had chanced to say early in the winter, that Moscow was a Babylon. "Come, is Babylon reformed, or have you degenerated?" she added, glancing with a simper at Kitty.Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina
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on one glorious Wednesday they brought in a trainload of strange whores, Babylonish women skilled in age-old methods and in possession of all manner of unguents and devices to stimulate the unaroused,
Gabriel García Márquez. One Hundred Years of Solitude, p.244 (1970)
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