antichrist

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I'd peg her as the antichrist, but I've heard that the antichrist is supposed to be charming and persuasive.

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  1. noun An enemy of Christ.
  2. noun The epithet of the great antagonist who was expected by the early Church to set himself up against Christ in the last days before the Second Coming.
  3. noun A false Christ.

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  • Both the Apostle Paul and John warned that the spirit of antichrist was already at work in the world and would produce many antichrists.
  • Spotting someone who labors under the spirit of antichrist is as easy as observing what fruit or result their labors produce.
  • Is this the day of prophecy known as the antichrist? —  Infowars
  • I never understood how the antichrist could be raised up to be adored and lead the entire world. —  Latest Articles
  • I'd peg her as the antichrist, but I've heard that the antichrist is supposed to be charming and persuasive. —  Latest Articles
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  1. Middle English Antecrist, from Old French and from Old English, both from Late Latin Antichrīstus, from Late Greek Antikhrīstos : Greek anti-, anti- + Greek Khrīstos, Christ; see Christ.

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  1. The spelling has been altered to bring it nearer the Latin form; from Middle English anticrist, antecrist, sometimes contr. ancrist, from Anglo-Saxon antecrist, from Late Latin antichristus, from Greek ἀντίχριστος, antichrist, from ἀντί, against, + Xριστός, Christ: see anti- and Christ.
 

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/ˈæntɪkraɪst/
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