messiah

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mes·si·ah | \ mə-ˈsī-ə

Definition of messiah

1 capitalized

a : the expected king and deliverer of the Jews

b : jesus sense 1

2 : a professed or accepted leader of some hope or cause security, which the political messiahs promise— Vardis Fisher

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They thought the new principal was the messiah the school had been hoping for.

Recent Examples on the Web Only a messiah, after all, can claim to have monopoly control of the truth. — Nathaniel Parish Flannery, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2021 Garfield plays Link, a charismatic bum who becomes a chaotic YouTube messiah after being discovered by Maya Hawke's Frankie. — Anne Cohen, refinery29.com, 7 Apr. 2021 And between 2017 and 2021, the network served as de facto state television for Donald Trump, treating him as a magisterial Dear Leader figure, and a kind of political messiah. — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 2 Apr. 2021 The Panthers fired one. King, more than anyone else, fit Hoover’s fear of a Black messiah. — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2021 Hoover worried that King, who was widely regarded as the moral leader of the nation, would become the Black messiah. — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Jan. 2021 At his introductory news conference, a reporter revealed to Harbaugh that others had called him a savior, and yes, even a messiah. — Rainer Sabin, Detroit Free Press, 9 Jan. 2021 Many who meet Goldenbaum are reacting to the apparent conflict in his full name — while his last name is stereotypically Jewish, his first name contains the name of the Christian messiah. — Josefin Dolsten, sun-sentinel.com, 14 Oct. 2020 Velasquez, who was born in El Salvador and is a DACA recipient, said that many members of his church had sided with the Republican Party in the past, and that some even saw Trump as a messiah. — Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2020

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