Juggernaut

Juggernaut

See also: juggernaut

English

Etymology

See juggernaut.

Proper noun

Juggernaut

  1. (Hinduism, historical, archaic) Jagannath, the Hindu deity Vishnu's avatar Krishna.
    • 1847, Charlotte Brontë, chapter VII, in Jane Eyre:
      '...for this girl, this child, the native of a Christian Land, worse than many a little heathen who says its prayers to Brahma and kneels before Juggernaut - this girl is - a liar!'

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