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| 1. | (often lowercase ) any large, overpowering, destructive force or object, as war, a giant battleship, or a powerful football team. |
| 2. | (often lowercase ) anything requiring blind devotion or cruel sacrifice. |
| 3. | Also called Jagannath. an idol of Krishna, at Puri in Orissa, India, annually drawn on an enormous cart under whose wheels devotees are said to have thrown themselves to be crushed. |
[Origin: 1630–40; < Hindi Jagannāth < Skt Jagannātha lord of the world (i.e., the god Vishnu or Krishna), equiv. to jagat world + nātha lord
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[Hindi jagannāth, title of Krishna, from Sanskrit jagannāthaḥ, lord of the world : jagat, moving, the world (from earlier present participle of jigāti, he goes; see gwā- in Indo-European roots) + nāthaḥ, lord (from nāthate, he helps, protects). Senses 1 and 2, from the fact that worshipers have thrown themselves under the wheels of a huge car or wagon on which the idol of Krishna was drawn in an annual procession at Puri in east-central India.] |
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1638, "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, lit. "lord of the world," from Skt. jagat "world" + natha-s "lord, master." The first European description of the festival is by Friar Odoric (c.1321). Fig. sense of "anything that demands blind devotion or merciless sacrifice" is from 1854.
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| 1. | a massive inexorable force that seems to crush everything in its way |
| 2. | an avatar of Vishnu [syn: Jagannath] |
| 3. | a crude idol of Krishna |
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Juggernaut [(jug-uhr-nawt)]
A deity in Hinduism, considered a deliverer from sin. His image is carried on a large wagon in an annual procession in India, and according to legend the wagon crushed worshipers who threw themselves under it.
Note: A force, an idea, or a system of beliefs that overcomes opposition — especially if it does so ruthlessly — is called a “juggernaut.”
[Chapter:] World Literature, Philosophy, and Religion
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Juggernaut
Jag`a*nat"ha\, Jaganatha \Jag`a*nat"ha\, n. See Juggernaut.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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