ANANIAS

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A habitual liar (after a New Testament character who was struck dead for lying)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

liar; prevaricator (a person who has lied or who lies repeatedly)

Domain category:

New Testament (the collection of books of the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, the Pauline and other epistles, and Revelation; composed soon after Christ's death; the second half of the Christian Bible)

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