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patmos

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What does patmos mean?

proper noun

  1. An island of the Dodecanese, Greece.

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In this retirement—a Patmos amid the howling ocean of popery that surrounds us—a letter from England has reached me at last.
Wilkie CollinsThe MoonstoneProject Gutenberg ebook #155
From Patmos men go unto Ephesus, a fair city and nigh to the sea.
John, Sir MandevilleThe Travels of Sir John MandevilleProject Gutenberg ebook #782
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During a persecution of the Christians, the aged John of Patmos has been secretly conveyed, by some faithful disciples, to a cave in the desert, where he is dying.
Robert Browning; Hiram CorsonAn Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's PoetryProject Gutenberg ebook #260
We do not speak of the immense exile of Patmos who, on his part also, overwhelms the real world with a protest in the name of the ideal world, who makes of his vision an enormous satire and casts on Rome-Nineveh, on Rome-Babylon, on Rome-Sodom, the flaming reflection of the Apocalypse.
Victor HugoLes MisérablesTranslated by Isabel Florence HapgoodProject Gutenberg ebook #135