Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of a race of demigods who invaded and inhabited Ireland. They were defeated by the Tuatha Dé Danaan.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Then there is the threat of Fomorian war on the horizon, and as the high-priestess of a warrior Goddess, Shannon must lead the people of Partholon into battle.
Reviews of fantasy and science fiction books Kristen 2010
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Why, ye wall-eyed auld Fomorian, if ye'd been in charge of the Cattle Raid of Cooley, the Brown Bull would still be chewin 'cud in his meaddy!
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: The Makeshift Rocket - Poul Anderson Blue Tyson 2008
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Why, ye wall-eyed auld Fomorian, if ye'd been in charge of the Cattle Raid of Cooley, the Brown Bull would still be chewin' cud in his meaddy!
Archive 2008-11-01 Blue Tyson 2008
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Fomorian women bowed their heads in slumber; the little children crept to their mothers 'laps; the old men nodded; and the young warriors drooped in their seats and closed their eyes: one after another all the
Stories to Tell to Children Sara Cone Bryant
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When they heard that, gently, gently, the Fomorian women bowed their heads in slumber; the little children crept to their mothers 'laps; the old men nodded; and the young warriors drooped in their seats and closed their eyes: one after another all the Fomorians sank into sleep.
Stories to Tell Children Fifty-Four Stories With Some Suggestions For Telling Sara Cone Bryant
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In the mythological cycle he is the deliverer of the De Danaans from the Fomorian oppression.
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So we see Bres of that dual lineage: with magic from his Danaan mother, and blackness from his Fomorian father: the Atlanteans, inheriting mind from the Manasaputra, but turning their divine inheritance to the uses of chaos and night.
The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Kenneth Morris 1908
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Lugh was a kind of counterpart to Bres; he was the son of Cian, a Danaan, and a daughter of the Fomorian champion Balor of the Mighty Blows, or of the Evil Eye.
The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Kenneth Morris 1908
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Gods, took refuge with his father the Fomorian king beyond the western sea; who gave him an army with which to reconquer his lost dominions.
The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Kenneth Morris 1908
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When they heard that, gently, gently, the Fomorian women bowed their heads in slumber; the little children crept to their mothers 'laps; the old men nodded; and the young warriors drooped in their seats and closed their eyes: one after another all the Fomorians sank into sleep.
Stories to Tell to Children: Fifty-One Stories With Some Suggestions for Telling 1907
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