John the Baptist
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English Johan þe Babtis, from Latin Iōannēs Baptista.
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Proper noun
edit- A New Testament prophet who baptized Jesus and was subsequently executed by Herod Antipas.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 3:1–2:
- In those daies came Iohn the Baptist, preaching in the wildernesse of Iudea, And saying, Repent yee: for the kingdome of heauen is at hand.
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Noun
edit- (figuratively) A harbinger or prophetic figure, often one initially ignored or rejected by others.
- 1956, Carlile Aylmer Macartney, October Fifteenth: A History of Modern Hungary, 1929–1945, volume 1, page 184:
- In 1935 Szálasi had been a lonely John the Baptist in Hungarian politics, the self-appointed leader of a tiny party, less than 500 strong, advocating an unpopular cause.
- 2003 September 21, Frank Kermode, “‘Pieces of My Mind’”, in The New York Times[2]:
- Ellis makes Diaghilev a John the Baptist of a ‘classico-mathematical Renaissance’, and the notion that this was a renaissance of some kind or other was evidently in the air.
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edit- “John the Baptist”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “John the Baptist”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
- “John the Baptist”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “John the Baptist”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
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