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Inducement Electra incited brother, Orestes, to kill their mother and her lover. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 92; Gk. Lit.: Electra, Orestes] exhorts Judah to stand fast against Assyrians. [O.T.: II Chronicles 32:6–8] exhorts fellow miners to massive strike. [Fr. Lit.: Germinal] 20th-century Electra in New England. [Am. Lit.: Mourning Becomes Electra] beguilingly prompts decapitation of John the Baptist. [N.T.: Mark 6:22–28] sobriquet of battle-exhorting women at French Convention. [Fr. Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 1100] (fl. 7th century B.C.) elegist; roused Spartans to Messenian triumph. [Gk. Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 1111] |
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