/ · 1894 Brewer’s · A · Aholibah (Ezek. xxiii. 4, 11, etc.)
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The personification of prostitution. Used by the prophet to signify religious adultery or harlotry. (See Harlot.)
“The great difficulty in exposing the immoralitios of this Aholibah is that her [acts] are so revolting.”—Papers on the Social Evil, 1885.
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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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