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 Adonis River.Adop’tion. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Ado’nists.
 
Those Jews who maintain that the proper vowels of the word Jehovah are unknown, and that the word is never to be pronounced Ado’nai. (Hebrew, adon, lord.)   1
 


 Adonis River.Adop’tion. 

 
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