Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
prænomen .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
prænomen .
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- noun Alternative form of
praenomen .
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Examples
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My prenomen, however, seems to be what you wish to know, though it would be quite impolite of you to use it, unless you are royal.
Pathfinder Orson Scott Card 2010
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Oh, who could find the right prenomen and honouring name for such longing!
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Terraces, each with a prenomen more graceful than the other, are the same.
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Respecting the orthography of the prenomen _Gneius_, see Zumpt, S 4.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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Charles was our only son, and was now in his third year -- the two girls, Henrietta and Sophia, were six and seven -- my eldest girl was nine years past, and I had named her, in commemoration of my father's ancient friend, by the prenomen of Waller.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 Various
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The prenomen is ming-tze; the Christian name is sheng-ming; the name given to children by parents nai-ming; the official name kwan-ming.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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To this influence our clay tablets bear witness by twice making emphatic reference to the days of the powerful “Manakhbiria” — the prenomen of King Thutmosis III.
The Tell El Amarna Period Carl Niebuhr 1894
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For some reason, never made sufficiently clear, Rivers 'parents had handicapped him from the baptismal font with the prenomen of Conde, which, however, upon Anglo-Saxon tongues, had been promptly modified to
Blix Frank Norris 1886
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Oh, who could find the right prenomen and honouring name for such longing!
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E. de Rouge, Lieblein, Wiedemann; most of them explain the differences by the supposition that, in many cases, one of the lists gives the cartouche name, and the other the cartouche prenomen of the same king.
History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12) M. L. McClure 1881
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