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Grammar : Noun
Spell : juhg-er-nawt, -not
Phonetic Transcription : ˈdʒʌg ərˌnɔt, -ˌnɒt

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Définition of juggernaut

Origin :
  • 1630s, "huge wagon bearing an image of the god Krishna," especially that at the town of Puri, drawn annually in procession in which (apocryphally) devotees allowed themselves to be crushed under its wheels in sacrifice. Altered from Jaggernaut, a title of Krishna (an incarnation of Vishnu), from Hindi Jagannath, literally "lord of the world," from Sanskrit jagat "world" (literally "moving," present participle of *jagati "he goes," from PIE *gwa- "to go, come" (see come (v.)) + natha-s "lord, master," from nathate "he helps, protects," from PIE *na- "to help." The first European description of the festival is by Friar Odoric (c.1321). Figurative sense of "anything that demands blind devotion or merciless sacrifice" is from 1854.
  • noun overpowering force
Example sentences :
  • Beneath the car of this Juggernaut we must flout our judgments and crush our affections.
  • Extract from : « The Conquest of Fear » by Basil King
  • What, after all, was the old god of the river to the Juggernaut of the city?
  • Extract from : « A Son of Hagar » by Sir Hall Caine
  • And that car of Juggernaut, and drowning their poor little babies!
  • Extract from : « A Little Girl in Old Salem » by Amanda Minnie Douglas
  • "Juggernaut," another word of Paklin's, flashed across his mind.
  • Extract from : « Virgin Soil » by Ivan S. Turgenev
  • What a car of juggernaut to roll over one, small, masterless terrier!
  • Extract from : « Greyfriars Bobby » by Eleanor Atkinson
  • The great temple of Juggernaut was erected in the twelfth century.
  • Extract from : « Mark Seaworth » by William H.G. Kingston
  • Then something screamed at them out there in the night and came at them like a juggernaut.
  • Extract from : « Hunters Out of Space » by Joseph Everidge Kelleam
  • His Juggernaut's car must roll on its course over her body or Mary Lawrie's.
  • Extract from : « An Old Man's Love » by Anthony Trollope
  • She is as blind as a Juggernaut, but he will come to see—alas!
  • Extract from : « Adrienne Toner » by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
  • Down bore the ice boat on the two, like a juggernaut of fate.
  • Extract from : « For the Honor of Randall » by Lester Chadwick

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