AMEN

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• AMEN (noun)
  The noun AMEN has 1 sense:

1. a primeval Egyptian personification of air and breath; worshipped especially at Thebes

  Familiarity information: AMEN used as a noun is very rare.

• AMEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A primeval Egyptian personification of air and breath; worshipped especially at Thebes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Amen; Amon; Amun

Instance hypernyms:

Egyptian deity (a deity worshipped by the ancient Egyptians)

 Context examples 

Him as strikes first is my fancy; dead men don't bite; them's my views—amen, so be it.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

"Amen! We can yet live," said Diana at last.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

With one impulse the men sank on their knees and a deep and earnest "Amen" broke from all as their eyes followed the pointing of his finger.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“Good!” cried the north countryman. “Hearken to him lads! He is a master bowman. Your dad says amen to every word he says.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Amen, Poole,” said the lawyer.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

“Amen!” said my aunt.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I don’t know about wot you s’y, Mr. Van W’yden, but I do know I’ll never rest ’appy till I see that ’ell-’ound bloody well dead. ’E cawn’t live as long as me. ’E’s got no right to live, an’ as the Good Word puts it, ‘’E shall shorely die,’ an’ I s’y, ‘Amen, an’ damn soon at that.’

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Scarce had the last deep amen broken from the Company, when, in an instant, there rose the scream of a hundred bugles, with the deep rolling of drums and the clashing of cymbals, all sounding together in one deafening uproar.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Howsoever, so be it, amen!”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

His own words are a pledge of this—"My Master," he says, "has forewarned me. Daily He announces more distinctly,—'Surely I come quickly!' and hourly I more eagerly respond,—'Amen; even so come, Lord Jesus!'"

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)