Brewer's: Adonai

Ado′nai

Son of the star-beam and god of light among the Rosicrucians. One of the names given by the Jews to Jehovah, for fear of breaking the command, “Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord [Jehovah] thy God in vain.”

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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