holofernes

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1. (Apocrypha) the Assyrian general who was decapitated by the biblical heroine Judith (noun.person)

instance hypernym	:	full general, general,
definition	:	a general officer of the highest rank (noun.person)

domain category	:	apocrypha,
definition	:	14 books of the Old Testament included in the Vulgate (except for II Esdras) but omitted in Jewish and Protestant versions of the Bible; eastern Christian churches (except the Coptic Church) accept all these books as canonical; the Russian Orthodox Church accepts these texts as divinely inspired but does not grant them the same status (noun.communication)