different between betraying vs aceldama

English

Etymology

betray +? -ing

Verb

betraying

1. present participle of betray

Noun

betraying (plural betrayings)

1. betrayal

   • Oh, by what plots, by what forswearings, betrayings, oppressions, imprisonments, tortures, poisonings, and under what reasons of state and politic subtilty, have these forenamed kings […] pulled the vengeance of God upon themselves […]

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????????? (Akeldamákh), from Aramaic ???? (“field”) + ???? (“blood”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /??s?ld?m?/, /??keld?m?/
• Hyphenation: a?cel?da?ma

Noun

aceldama (plural aceldamas)

1. The potter's field, said to have lain south of Jerusalem, purchased with the bribe which Judas took for betraying his master, and therefore called the field of blood.
2. A field of bloodshed, a place of slaughter. [from 17th c.]
   • 1849, Thomas de Quincey, ‘The English Mail-Coach’:

     …a regiment already for some hours glorified and hallowed to the ear of all London, as lying stretched, by a large majority, upon one bloody aceldama […].

   • 1928, Edmund Blunden, Undertones of War, Penguin 2010, p. 42:

     Our own trenches had been knocked silly, and all the area of attack had been turned into an Aceldama.

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