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What is an aceldama?

What is an aceldama? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  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.]
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He bought with it a large estate, the name of which the people changed to Aceldama, as being bought with innocent blood.
The eye of love proved keener than the eye of gratitude, and the Saxon lady even in that Aceldama knew her Harold.
It was the burying-place for strangers, Aceldama, the field of blood.
What a remarkable fulfilment of prophecy, in the purchase of Aceldama, that potter's field of blood.
The eye of love proved keener than the eye of gratitude, and the Saxon lady, even in that Aceldama, knew her Harold.
Our own trenches had been knocked silly, and all the area of attack had been turned into an Aceldama.

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