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leviathan

In the Old Testament, a sea monster (thought to be the whale), later associated in Christian literature with Satan. The term was also used to describe the monstrous qualities of wealth or power invested in one person, as in the political treatise Leviathan by the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes.


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