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the Lord's Anointed

the Lord's Anointed proper noun: christ or the Messiah.

Proper noun (1)

the Lord's Anointed

  1. Christ or the Messiah.
    • And Dauid sayd to Abishai, Destroy him not: for who can stretch forth his hand against the Lords Anointed, and be guiltlesse?1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Samuel 26:9
    • Yes, he wanted power—he wanted to know himself to be the Lord's anointed, His well-beloved, and worthy, nearly, of that snow-white dove which had been sent down from Heaven to testify that Jesus was the Son of God.1953, James Baldwin, “Gabriel’s Prayer”, in Go Tell It on the Mountain, New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Co., published October 1970, →OCLC, part 2 (The Prayers of the Saints), page 94
  2. A Jewish or other king by divine right.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: the Lord's anointed

the Lord's anointed

  1. Alternative letter-case form of the Lord's Anointed.

Forms of the Lord's Anointed

alternative formthe Lord's anointed

Origin of the Lord's Anointed

Compare Ancient Greek χριστός (khristós, “[the] anointed [one]”).

Questions about the Lord's Anointed

What does the Lord's Anointed mean?
The Lord's Anointed means christ or the Messiah.
What part of speech is the Lord's Anointed?
The Lord's Anointed is a proper noun.

Words near the Lord's Anointed in the dictionary

  1. the longest purse knocks the persimmon
  2. the Loop
  3. the Lord helps those that help themselves
  4. the Lord helps those who help themselves
  5. the Lord works in mysterious ways
  6. the Lord's Anointed
  7. the Lord's work
  8. the love of money is the root of all evil
  9. the lower 48
  10. the lunatics have taken over the asylum
  11. The Mall

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