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Lazaruses

Lazaruses is the plural of Lazarus.

Lazaruses is the third-person singular simple present indicative of Lazarus.

Meaning of Lazarus

Noun

Lazarus (plural Lazaruses)

  1. (figuratively, usually) A person who was deceased and has been resurrected; a deceased person who could potentially be resurrected.
    • This was the classic age of all the various exhumations, restorations, and resurrections; it was a retrospective time — a time of ghosts and Lazaruses, more or less decomposed.1855, The New Monthly Magazine, volume 105, page 302
  2. A poor person, a beggar.
    • And do you not think, that all these poor Lazaruses, that you have persecuted, and do persecute, that when they die, they will not be carried into Abraham's bosom?1706, George Fox, Gospel Truth Demonstrated, in a Collection of Doctrinal Books, volume 2, published 1831, page 273
    Synonyms:
    pauper, beggar

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Questions about Lazaruses

What is Lazaruses the plural of?
Lazaruses is the plural of Lazarus.

Words near Lazaruses in the dictionary

  1. Lazarus species
  2. Lazarus syndrome
  3. Lazarus taxa
  4. Lazarus taxon
  5. Lazarused
  6. Lazaruses
  7. Lazarusing
  8. lazarwort
  9. Lazcano
  10. Lazcanos
  11. Lazdijai

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