Synonyms:
Judith, Book_of_Judith
Meaning: an Apocryphal book telling how Judith saved her people
Synonyms:
Judith
Meaning: Jewish heroine in one of the books of the Apocrypha; she saved her people by decapitating the Assyrian general Holofernes
Usage examples
"Gone entirely, Judith.
Judith married Thomas Quiney.
"It is not the Lord Chancellor's fault, Judith.
"For good!" groaned Judith; "I should say for ill.
Judith, with a pettish movement, returned to her kitchen; and at that moment Hamish came downstairs.
These people do not know that Olda prophesied when the men were mute; that while Barach was atremble, Deborah saved Israel; that Judith and Esther delivered from supreme peril the children of God.