Zamzummimn.
A name of ‘a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims’ (Deuteronomy ii. 21); used allusively or figuratively
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1530 Bible (Tyndale) Deut. ii. f. iiiiv That also was taken for a londe of geauntes and geauntes dwelt therin in olde tyme, and the Ammonites called them Zamzumyms.
1531 W. Tyndale Answere Mores Dialoge f. iiij Haue they not compelled the emperoures of the erth..to be their tormentoures, and the samsumims them selves do but imagen mischefe and inspire them.
1628 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 3) ii. iii. ii. 290 Aiax, Caligula, and the rest of those great Zanzummins, or giganticall Anakims.
a1649 W. Drummond Skiamachia in Wks. (1711) 201 Such Numbers of arm'd Enemies, so many Nimrods, Zanzummims, Adversaries to our Opinions.
1660 England's Mon. Asserted 9 Those two great Zanzummines of Church and State, the Arch-bishop of Canterbury, and the Earl of Strafford.
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