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Wandering Jew
noun
- a legendary character condemned to roam without rest because he struck Christ on the day of the Crucifixion.
- Also wan顎僤ering Jew顎, 奥补苍路诲别谤路颈苍驳-箩别飞 [] Also called inch plant. any of various trailing or creeping plants, as Zebrina pendula or Tradescantia fluminensis, having green or variegated leaves: a popular houseplant.
Wandering Jew
1noun
- (in medieval legend) a character condemned to roam the world eternally because he mocked Christ on the day of the Crucifixion
wandering Jew
2noun
- any of several related creeping or trailing plants of tropical America, esp Tradescantia fluminensis and Zebrina pendula: family Commelinaceae
- a similar creeping plant of the genus Commelina
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of Wandering Jew1
Example Sentences
Pim had read one of Roth鈥檚 works years before 鈥 a book called 鈥淭he Wandering Jews,鈥 in which Roth returns to his Galician homeland to describe the 鈥渨onder-rabbis鈥 and the Jewish believers who flocked to them.
But when we encounter this man in folklore, he鈥檚 known by another, more familiar name: the Wandering Jew.
The visage of philanthropist George Soros, made into the durable caricature of the Wandering Jew of old, was plastered around Hungary.
The Wandering Jew ring that belonged to my husband, Carl, is very important to me.
His 2007 book 鈥淭he Barn Owl鈥檚 Wondrous Capers,鈥 for instance, chronicles an unnamed narrator鈥檚 search for an eighteenth-century book of scandals, written by an Indian version of the 鈥淲andering Jew鈥 of medieval Christian mythology.
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