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Ananias|ænəˈnaɪəs|
Name of a man who, ‘with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession and kept back part of the price’ (Acts v. 1, 2); used allusively for a liar.
1876in Sperber & Trittschuh Amer. Polit. Terms (1962) 15/1 It is a matchless product of Uriah Heep ‘harmony’, or of Ananias ‘harmony’. 1890Harper's Mag. Apr. 795/1 Since Locke's time newspaper Ananiases have not been infrequent. 1948‘J. Tey’ Franchise Affair xxiii. 266 The report [of the trial] was printed under a heading which read: Ananias Also Ran. |