baalish
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "So in the height of the degeneracy and apostasy of the Israelitish church, there were seven thousand who kept themselves pure from Baalish idolatry, of whom none were known to Elijah."
- "Oft would he cry, when treasure he surpris'd, 'Tis Baalish gold in David's coin disguis'd."
- "The priests, who are possessed of awful lungs, made the chapel resound with their Baalish howlings, as they recited the litany for the dead."
- "Yet , during their Babylonian captivity , it is quite possible that Baalish symbolic thinking gave the defeated Jews the needed hope to survive as a people ."
- "There is also the theory that Jezreel was a Baalish name and thus a proclamation of Israel's apostasy."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more Baalish (comparative)
most Baalish (superlative)