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Nemʹesis

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Retribution, or rather the righteous anger of God. A female Greek deity, whose mother was Night.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Nehallenia
Nehushtan (2 Kings xviii. 4)
Neiges dAntan (The)
Neken
Neksheb
Nell’s Point
Nem. Con
Nem. Diss
Nemean Games (The)
Nemean Lion (The)
Nemesis
Nemo Me Impune Lacessit
Neology
Neoptolemos or Pyrrhos
Nepenthe
Neper’s Bones
Nephelo-coccygia
Nephew (French neveu, Latin nepos)
Nepomuk
Nepotism
Neptune

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Nemesis