Definitions
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- proper noun A female
given name
Etymologies
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Examples
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I called Pamela and told her that if she was prepared to recommend me to the president, I was prepared to throw myself into the appointment process.
Dealings Felix Rohatyn 2010
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I'm not sure why I was certain Pamela was responsible.
January 3rd, 2007 2007
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Thanks, Madeline, I did know an “illegal” tattoo artist, but Pamela is pure invention.
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Pamela is good at answering questions about writing, selling, and associated activities.
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Countess: the word Pamela was in what he said: she answered him with a downcast look, in the same language, half-pleased, half-serious, and the chariot drove away.
Pamela 2006
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How many parents realize that the currently popular Jennifer is derived from Guinevere (King Arthur's adulterous queen) or that the name Pamela became popular through Samuel Richardson's Pamela; or Virtue Rewarded (1740)?
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Sir Philip Sydney first used the name Pamela in 1590, so if one were writing a novel set before that date or even a bit later, the name would be an anachronism.
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'Pamela' -- distinctly the worst of his works -- of which it is enough to say at present that it succeeds neither in being moral nor in amusing.
Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) Leslie Stephen 1868
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It ruled he was not to blame because the woman - identified only as "Pamela" - contaminated him with cocaine hours before the drug test.
Stuff.co.nz - Stuff 2009
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It ruled he was not to blame because the woman - identified only as "Pamela" - contaminated him with cocaine hours before the drug test.
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