Samson Agonistes, the strong man of a nation or race caught in the net of his and their enemies, and, encompassed by them, wrestling in his soul's agony to free himself from them; the imagery here being suggested by the story of Samson in the hands of the Philistines.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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