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Pax Judaica

/ˌpæks d͡ʒuˈdeɪ̯.ɪ.kə/

Pax Judaica proper noun: a hypothetical period of international peace based on submission to prospective Israeli dominance over international affairs.

Proper noun

Pax Judaica

  1. (offensive, sometimes) A hypothetical period of international peace based on submission to prospective Israeli dominance over international affairs.
    • Have we been struggling these tragic years to blow up and extirpate the secret organization of German world dominion only to find beneath it another more dangerous because more secret? Have we, by straining every fibre of our national body, escaped a “Pax Germanica” only to fall into a “Pax...1920 May 8, ““The Jewish Peril.”: A Disturbing Pamphlet”, in The Times, number 42,405, London, page 15
    • Lacking your “English Phlegm” to take delight / In Apemantus’ “coil,” “serving of becks” / And all the rest; I was ordained to vex / This “Pax Judaica”, the parasite / Of base assent, this oily sea whose might / O’er-swells the gorged loot of a million wrecks.1924, Lord Alfred Douglas, canto XVI, in In Excelsis, London: Martin Secker, page 43

Origin of Pax Judaica

From Latin pāx (“peace”) + Iūdaica (“Jewish”), modelled after Pax Romana, Pax Germanica, etc.

Questions about Pax Judaica

What does Pax Judaica mean?
Pax Judaica means a hypothetical period of international peace based on submission to prospective Israeli dominance over international affairs.
What part of speech is Pax Judaica?
Pax Judaica is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Pax Judaica?
Pax Judaica is pronounced /ˌpæks d͡ʒuˈdeɪ̯.ɪ.kə/.

Words near Pax Judaica in the dictionary

  1. pawy
  2. pax
  3. Pax Americana
  4. Pax Augusta
  5. Pax Britannica
  6. Pax Judaica
  7. Pax Romana
  8. Pax Silica
  9. Pax Sinica
  10. paxamate
  11. paxes

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