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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—A

Adonists

Ado′nists

Those Jews who maintain that the proper vowels of the word Jehovah are unknown, and that the word is never to be pronounced Adonai. (Hebrew, adon, lord.)

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