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a job description so vacant that thousands have applied and none kept it.
means A promised savior or liberator, especially the anointed deliverer awaited in Jewish tradition or, in Christianity, Jesus identified as that figure — and, by extension, anyone hailed as the one who will fix everything.
from From the Hebrew mashiach, "anointed one" — literally someone smeared with sacred oil to mark them as chosen, since kings and priests were consecrated by pouring oil on their heads. Greek-speaking Jews rendered it as Christos, "anointed," which is why the Hebrew title and its Greek twin point at the same idea. The word reached English through Latin and the church, carrying its dripping, ceremonial origin quietly inside it.
- Original meaning
- Hebrew for anointed, just oiled with sacred fat
- Mass complex
- Psychiatrists name an actual messiah delusion syndrome
- Handel's hit
- His Messiah oratorio was written in 24 days
- Still waiting
- Judaism's messiah hasn't shown up yet
- False ones
- History logs dozens of self-declared failures