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Damon

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Da·mon  (dmn)
n.
A legendary figure who, out of devotion, pledged his life as a guarantee that his condemned friend Pythias would return to face execution. Both were subsequently pardoned.
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Noun1.Damon - the friend of Phintias who pledged his life that Phintias would return (4th century BC)


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Wakefield Damon, who had a curious habit of "blessing" everything that happened to strike his fancy.
Tom Swift In The Land Of Wonders by Appleton, Victor View in context
And there rises up before me all that was there foreshadowed, and I see visions of Damon and Pythias, of life-saving crews and Red Cross nurses, of martyrs and leaders of forlorn hopes, of Father Damien, and of the Christ himself, and of all the men of earth, mighty of stature, whose strength may trace back to the elemental loins of Lop-Ear and Big-Tooth and other dim denizens of the Younger World.
Before Adam by London, Jack View in context
Then, I said, we must take Damon into our counsels; and he will tell us what rhythms are expressive of meanness, or insolence, or fury, or other unworthiness, and what are to be reserved for the expression of opposite feelings.
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