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Delilah|dɪˈlaɪlə|
Also 6–8 Dalilah.
The name of the woman who betrayed Samson to the Philistines (see Judges xvi), used allusively to mean a temptress or treacherous paramour.
1594J. King On Jonas (1597) xlvi. 630 You who esteeme..to be the dearlings of the pleasure of Egypt, and be set vpon the knees of the Delilah of this world. 1614T. Adams Divells Banket i. 6 If Dalilah inuite Sampson, ware his lockes; she will spoile the Nazarite of his hayres; there are many Dalilahs in these dayes. 1678Butler Hud. iii. ii. 1115 [Ye] Transform'd all Wives to Dalilahs, Whose Husbands were not for the Cause. 1768H. Brooke Fool of Qual. III. xiii. 30, I have no foreign Dalilahs, no secret amours. 1879J. C. Shairp Robert Burns vi. 141 Other Delilahs on a smaller scale Burns met with during his Dumfries sojourn. 1893F. Adams New Egypt 63 This is about as far as the French Delilah dare at present go in the public incitements of her young Egyptian Samson. 1931W. de la Mare Seven Short Stories 89 The gloved fingers, Delilah-like, had tapped again. |