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Adversary

//ˈæd.vəɹˌsɛɹi// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun

1
The Devil; Satan. Judaism, sometimes
"Yahweh′s turning Gog around, putting hooks in his jaws, and bringing him out from the remotest parts of the north (Ezek. 38:4-6) is now interpreted as the release of the Adversary from prison."

Noun

1
An opponent or rival.
"He prepared to fight his adversary."
2
someone who offers opposition wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English adversarie, from Anglo-Norman aversaire (in Wace's Life of Saint Margaret) and Old French aversier, aversaire (French adversaire), from Latin adversārius, from adversus (“turned toward”).

Etymology 2

A biblical reference, Satan ultimately deriving from a borrowing of the Hebrew שָׂטָן (Śāṭān, “adversary, accuser”). (See also Satan).

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