Adversary

Definitions

1. The Devil; Satan.
   Judaism, sometimes
2. An opponent or rival.

Equivalents

Examples

“He prepared to fight⟳ his adversary.”

“In the political drama that Donald Trump has created in Washington, he could not have⟳ dreamed up a more formidable adversary than James Comey.”

“The real bombshell it contains is not the confidence of the spy agencies that Russia hoped to subvert American democracy. It is that US intelligence experts effectively confirmed that for the second election in a row, Trump acolytes repeatedly used, knowingly or otherwise, misinformation produced by the spies of one of America’s most sworn foreign adversaries to try⟳ to win⟳ a US election.”

“Yahweh′s turning Gog around, putting hooks in his jaws, and bringing him out from the remotest parts of the north (Ezek. 38:4-6) is now interpreted as the release⟳ of the Adversary from prison.”

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