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Hadji

noun
(Also spelled hajji and haji)
1.
An Arabic term of respect for someone who has made the pilgrimage to Mecca.  Synonyms: haji, hajji.






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"Hadji" Quotes from Famous Books



... gospel of Love and submission, he cannot be judged guilty of Anarchism in its full significance. He could not, however, suppress the sympathy which he felt with those whose resistance to oppression brought them into deadly conflict with autocracy. He found in the Caucasian chieftain, Hadji Murat, a subject full of human interest and dramatic possibilities; and though some eight years passed before he corrected the manuscript for the last time (in 1903), it is evident from the numbers of entries in his diary ...
— The Forged Coupon and Other Stories • Leo Tolstoy

... in Sulu, after having paid our respects to the Sultana, we called upon the next greatest personage in town, a Hadji but lately returned from his pilgrimage to Mecca. He was a most intelligent man, with regular features, fine eyes, and a flowing beard, impressively patriarchal. He was a priest as well as a Hadji, and, we were told, had a ...
— A Woman's Journey through the Philippines - On a Cable Ship that Linked Together the Strange Lands Seen En Route • Florence Kimball Russel

... of the Temple was silent for a little, then said very gently: "Is there nothing, O Hadji, ...
— The Uncrowned King • Harold Bell Wright



Words linked to "Hadji" :   hajji, pilgrim



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