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  • proper noun A male given name.

Etymologies

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The usual English form of biblical Nathanael, from Hebrew נתנאל (Nataniel), gift of God, from נתן (natan or Nat), to give.

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Examples

  • Captain Nathaniel West, whom I had not yet met, who had now kept me freezing on pier-ends through four miserable hours.

    CHAPTER I 2010

  • [3] This verse-debate about war springs from the differing sentiments expressed in Nathaniel Bloomfield's 'Essay on War', published in An Essay on War, in Blank Verse; Honington Green, a

    Letter 238 2009

  • [3] The poem was published in Nathaniel Bloomfield's volume An Essay on War, in Blank Verse; Honington Green, a Ballad ... and Other Poems (London: Hurst, Vernor and Hood, 1803), pp. 85 – 88.

    Letter 423 2009

  • It just so happens that he finds this story in Nathaniel, a homeless musician with mental problems.

    Foxx ends “The Soloist” on a high note » Scene-Stealers 2009

  • The change in Nathaniel at the end was so touching.

    Reader reviews of Ptolemy's Gate by Jonathan Stroud. 2005

  • Increasingly imperious and distracted, Nathaniel is treating Bartimaeus worse than ever.

    Ptolemy's Gate: Summary and book reviews of Ptolemy's Gate by Jonathan Stroud. 2005

  • Captain Nathaniel West, whom I had not yet met, who had now kept me freezing on pier-ends through four miserable hours.

    Chapter 1 1914

  • But no one knew him without loving him, or saw him without remembering him; and the name Nathaniel

    Literary and Social Essays George William Curtis 1858

  • His son—the slaver’s grandson—was the sixth and last Gordon to have the name Nathaniel.

    Hanging Captain Gordon Ron Soodalter 2007

  • His son—the slaver’s grandson—was the sixth and last Gordon to have the name Nathaniel.

    Hanging Captain Gordon Ron Soodalter 2007

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