Iudas

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A form of judas — A traitor; a person not to be trusted.

Scrabble 6

Meanings

proper noun
  1. archaicArchaic spelling of Judas.

    Ped: Iudas I am. Dum: A Iudas? Ped: Not Iscariot sir. Iudas I am ycliped Machabeus.

    1904, William Shakespeare, Horace Howard Furness, Loves Labour's Lost, page 288
    2 more examples

    And surely none can continue neare, and deare vnto our kyng Christ but suche, for others that euer prolle for priuate profite, bee hypocrites and flatterers as was Iudas.

    1870, Thomas Lever, Sermons, page 73

    And it fortuned at that tyme that Iudas went from his brethren & gatt him to a man called Hira of Odollam, and there he sawe the doughter of a man called Sua a Canaanyte.

    1884, Jacob Isidor Mombert, Five Books of Moses (Genesis, XXXVIII: 1), page 115
  2. archaicArchaic form of Jude.

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