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The name of an inhabitant of the City of Destruction, who advised Christian to return to his family, and not run on foolsʹ errands. (Bunyan: Pilgrim’s Progress, pt. i.)

 

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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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Oberthal (Count)
Obidah
Obidicut
Oblism
Obiter dictum (Latin)
Object
Obolus
Obsequies
Obstacle Race (An)
Obstinate
Obverse (The)
Oby
Occam (William of)
Occam’s Razor
Occasion
Occult Sciences
Oceana
Ochiltree (Edie)
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