What is the meaning of Moloch?

noun

  • A tyrannical power to be propitiated by human subservience or sacrifice. "the great Moloch of war"; "duty has become the Moloch of modern life- Norman Douglas
  • God of the Canaanites and Phoenicians to whom parents sacrificed their children.
  • Any lizard of the genus Moloch. .
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