Ananias /an-uh-NY-uhs/ noun A liar. This flashcard defines 'Ananias' as a noun meaning a liar, referencing the biblical story of Ananias and Sapphira who were punished for dishonesty. It also provides an example of its use from a 1966 text.
Ananias /an-uh-NY-uhs/ noun A liar. [After Ananias, who along with his wife Sapphira, was struck dead for lying. They sold a piece of land. Instead of giving away all of the proceeds from the sale, they kept a portion for themselves, to the displeasure of Peter. Earliest documented use: 1876.] "Their 'exaggerations' and 'inventions' were roundly condemned. The worst offender was the Ananias whose dispatches to the New York World from Fort Keogh told of dead cattle, sixty-below temperatures, snow eight to fifty feet deep and the like." - Helena Huntington Smith; The War on Powder River; University of Nebraska Press; 1966. This flashcard defines 'Ananias' as a noun meaning a liar, referencing the biblical story of Ananias and Sapphira who were punished for dishonesty. It also provides an example of its use from a 1966 text.
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| Front | noun A liar. [After Ananias, who along with his wife Sapphira, was struck dead for lying. They sold a piece of land. Instead of giving away all of the proceeds from the sale, they kept a portion for themselves, to the displeasure of Peter. Earliest documented use: 1876.] "Their 'exaggerations' and 'inventions' were roundly condemned. The worst offender was the Ananias whose dispatches to the New York World from Fort Keogh told of dead cattle, sixty-below temperatures, snow eight to fifty feet deep and the like." - Helena Huntington Smith; The War on Powder River; University of Nebraska Press; 1966. |
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