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Promised Land

or Land of Promise. Canaan; so called because God promised Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob that their offspring should possess it.

 

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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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Progress
Projection
Proletaire
Proletariat
Prometheus
Promethean
Promethean Fire
Promethean Unguent (The)
Prometheans
Promise of Odin (The)
Promised Land
Pronesia (in Orlando Furioso)
Proof
Proof Prints
Proof Spirit
Prooshan Blue (My)
Propaganda
Proper Names used as Common Nouns
Property Plot (The)
Prophesy upon Velvet (To)
Prophet (The)