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Leviathan cultural definition

A sea monster mentioned in the Book of Job, where it is associated with the forces of chaos and evil.

  • Figuratively, a “leviathan” is any enormous beast.
  • Leviathan is a work on politics by the seventeenth-century English author Thomas Hobbes.

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