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What does Jocasta mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word Jocasta? Here's what it means.

Proper noun
  1. (Greek) The mother and wife of Oedipus.
  2. (rare) A female given name.
Name
  1. A female given name of Greek origin.
    1. (meaning, history) The shining moon. The mother of Oedipus in Greek mythology.
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The incestuous marriage between Oedipus and Jocasta, a fruitful symbiotic union, had continued for seventeen years when the play Oedipus Rex begins.
After touching the dead Jocasta and his two sons, he passes to exile and rest at colonus.
In her horror and grief at this discovery, Queen Jocasta killed herself.
A curse is laid on dissoluteTheban King Laius foretelling he will be killed by his own son who will then marry his mother Jocasta.
The fascinated eyes of Billie dwelt on Jocasta with endless wonder.
As we shall see between Oedipus and Jocasta, the deficiencies of Abram's faith are compounded in his spouse's misbelief.

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