Judith

plural Judiths

1. countableuncountableA female given name from Hebrew.

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   The beauty and simplicity of names are altogether arbitrary: Mary and Elizabeth, and Judith, may suit a taste formed on the Puritan model, that is to say, an English and Scottish taste: the French consider Victoire, Adele, Adriane, or any other such "fanciful and romantic" names, quite as simple, and perhaps as beautiful, as Mr. Stuart does Mary and Jane.

   1833 The New Monthly Magazine, E. Littell, Vol. 1, January-June 1833, page 211("On Grand Christian Names")

2. countableuncountableA book of the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox canon of the Old Testament, considered apocryphal by Protestants.
3. countableuncountablebiblicalThe protagonist of the Biblical book of Judith.

   And Judith was left along in the tent, and Holofernes lying along upon his bed: for he was filled with wine. --- And she smote twice upon his neck with all her might, and she took away his head from him.

4. countableuncountablebiblicalA wife of Esau.

   And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite: Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.