SUPREME WORD OF THE DAY:ANANIAS

 SUPREME WORD OF THE DAY:     ANANIAS

PRONUNCIATION:(AN-UH-NY-UHS)

MEANING:(noun): A liar.

ETYMOLOGY:

After Ananias, who along with his wife Sapphira, was struck dead for lying. They sold a piece of land. Instead of giving away all of the proceeds from the sale, they kept a portion for themselves, to the displeasure of Peter. Earliest documented use: 1876.

USAGE:

"Their 'exaggerations' and 'inventions' were roundly condemned. The worst offender was the Ananias whose dispatches to the New York World from Fort Keogh told of dead cattle, sixty-below temperatures, snow eight to fifty feet deep and the like."
Helena Huntington Smith; The War on Powder River; University of Nebraska Press; 1966. 

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