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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • A transliteration of the four constants forming the Hebrew tetragrammaton or “incommunicable name” of the Supreme Being, which in latter Jewish tradition is not pronounced save with the vowels of adonai or elohim, so that the true pronunciation is lost.

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