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Prodigal Son
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What does Prodigal Son mean?
noun
- Someone who returns home from travelling or exile or who is welcomed back after disgrace, especially having repented of former extravagant or immoral behavior.
- A marine fish, the cobia (Rachycentron canadum).
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Then straightway touched with pity we run to meet the prodigal son and snatch the fugitive slave from the gates of death.
It is not glad within; last month the prodigal son of the struggling father wrote home from the city for money.
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The Prodigal Son came to himself afterwhile and thought upon his ways.
“Have you never thought of marrying your prodigal son Anatole?”
I have not seen my mother this long time, and it lies upon my conscience, for it’s something to be loved as she loves her prodigal son.---Bah!