Definitions

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  • proper noun A male or female given name.
  • proper noun A patronymic surname.

Etymologies

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A rare spelling variant of Vivian.

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Examples

  • One morning he called Vyvyan into his study before starting.

    Julian Home 1867

  • "Vyvyan," (his father had written -- not even ` dear Vyvyan '), "I allow you 500 pounds a year, a sum totally out of proportion with your wants, and yet you are so shamefully extravagant as to write without a blush to ask me for more.

    Julian Home 1867

  • For men such as Steve Borthwick, Hugh Vyvyan, Jacques Burger, Matt Stevens and Wray, the desire to end years of sweat without major reward and to atone for various personal setbacks was, ultimately, strong enough to repel the reigning champions.

    Leicester 18-22 Saracens | Premiership final match report 2011

  • This week Carl Barât – the Rick to Pete Doherty's Vyvyan in the Libertines 'own take on The Young Ones – aims to ride the wave of his old band's successful Reading/Leeds festival reunion with the dual release of his first solo album and an autobiography, Threepenny Memoir.

    Carl Barât: Carl Barât Will Dean 2010

  • Professor Vyvyan Howard, a toxico-pathologist of the University of Ulster, says, "Several new hazards can now be identified."

    Jeffrey Smith: Genetically Modified Soy Diets Lead to Ovary and Uterus Changes in Rats Jeffrey Smith 2010

  • ReaI practical support has come from independent booksellers like Venetia Vyvyan at Heywood Hill in London and Louise Vance at another gem of the book world, The Sandwich Bookshop, who came on BBC Radio Kent with me this week and gave it a rave.

    Songs of Blue and Gold « Tales from the Reading Room 2008

  • The two books that, for me, take the reader closest to “the real Oscar Wilde” are The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde edited by Merlin Holland and Rupert Hart-Davis (2000) and Son of Oscar Wilde by Vyvyan Holland (1954).

    Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009

  • The two books that, for me, take the reader closest to “the real Oscar Wilde” are The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde edited by Merlin Holland and Rupert Hart-Davis (2000) and Son of Oscar Wilde by Vyvyan Holland (1954).

    Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009

  • The two books that, for me, take the reader closest to “the real Oscar Wilde” are The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde edited by Merlin Holland and Rupert Hart-Davis (2000) and Son of Oscar Wilde by Vyvyan Holland (1954).

    Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009

  • The two books that, for me, take the reader closest to “the real Oscar Wilde” are The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde edited by Merlin Holland and Rupert Hart-Davis (2000) and Son of Oscar Wilde by Vyvyan Holland (1954).

    Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009

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