Cain
[kein]
Definition
(noun.) (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man; Cain killed Abel out of jealousy and was exiled by God.
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Definition
n. a murderer from Cain who killed his brother Abel (Gen. iv.).—adj. Cain′-col′oured (Shak.) reddish the traditional colour of the hair of Cain and Judas.—n. Cain′ite a descendant of Cain: a member of a 2d-century set of Gnostics who revered Cain and Judas.
n. in old Scots law rent paid in kind esp. in poultry &c.—To pay the cain to pay the penalty.
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Examples
- He's as like Cain before he was grown up, as he can be. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- A sense of Cain-like desolation made my breast ache. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I will have no Cain and Abel strife here. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He had killed his brother when a boy, and was set apart, like Cain. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The civilisation of to-day would not have been possible if the successors of Tubal Cain had not been like him, instructors of every artificer in brass and iron. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- We have seen Titian's celebrated Cain and Abel, his David and Goliah, his Abraham's Sacrifice. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Then he remembered, with a slight shock, that that was Cain's cry. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Not that he was Cain, either, although he had slain his brother. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- And Gerald was Cain, if anybody. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Cain might have looked as lonely and avoided. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
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