Definitions for Adonais

Adonais A·do·nai

Spelling: [Sephardic Hebrew ah-daw-nahy; Ashkenazic Hebrew ah-doh-
IPA: /Sephardic Hebrew ˌɑ dɔˈnaɪ; Ashkenazic Hebrew ˌɑ doʊˈnɔɪ/

Adonais is a 7 letter English word.

You can make 169 anagrams from letters in Adonais (aadinos).

Definitions for Adonais

noun

  1. Hebrew. a title of reverence for God, serving also as a substitute pronunciation of the Tetragrammaton.

Origin of Adonais

literally, my Lord; spoken in place of the ineffable name Yahweh

Examples for Adonais

We found the grave of Shelley, who so soon followed his adonais.

adonais lies dead; and those who mourn him, must seek his grave.

This seems to contradict the phrase in adonais (stanza 20) 'Nought we know dies.'

The poem of adonais can of course be contemplated from different points of view.

The last verse of the adonais seems almost prophetic of his own end.

The last lines of adonais might be read as a prophecy of his own death by drowning.

In 1821, he wrote his adonais, a monody on the death of Keats.

After this, he says in this stanza no more about adonais, but only about the mourner.

Two quotations from adonais will suffice to show the power and sweetness of its verse.

I was also more than commonly interested in the success of adonais.

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