Definitions
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- proper noun A female
given name occasionally borrowed from German around 1900.
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- noun the Teutonic goddess of fertility; later identified with Norse Njord
Etymologies
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Examples
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"Was your mother's name Hertha?" she said, naturally enough, for I had never named her, always speaking, as one will, of her as my mother only.
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Isis of Gaul, called Hertha or Wertha, Virgin to bear a child, 104-u.
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Albert Pike 1850
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A number of female doctoral students such as Hertha Wambacher, Theodora Kautz, Erna Bussecker, Felicitas Weiss-Tessbach, Selma Schneidt, and Elsa Holesch oriented their research projects around the themes of Pettersson's group. 112
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It is only explicable on the hypothesis that she was the goddess of a heathen cult, such as Hertha (or Nerthus), whose periodical progress among her subject tribes is described in a well-known passage by Tacitus, [57] and yet survives, as we have seen, in the folklore of Rügen.
The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology Edwin Sidney Hartland 1887
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'Glory to Man in the highest, for Man is the master of things'; and in one stanza of 'Hertha' is condensed all the wild declamation against deities and despots that pervades his poetry at this stage, with his joy in the deification of humanity:
Studies in Literature and History Alfred Comyn Lyall 1873
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These later productions, of which 'Hertha' and 'Syskonlif' are the most important, are far inferior to her earlier work.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864
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"Hertha", was exposed to mathematics by her Cambridge educated cousin, and to philosophy by her Uncle (who mingled with, among others,
unknown title Roger Pink 2009
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The signing of the former Schalke right-back Rafinha from Genoa for €5.5m is somewhat baffling whereas paying €13.5m for Manchester City's Jérôme Boateng makes more sense, the defender having played for Hertha Berlin and Hamburg in the Bundesliga from 2007 to 2010.
From Alexis Sánchez to Manuel Neuer: Our European transfers round-up 2011
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"After his heroics in Union Berlin's derby victory against Hertha BSC in february, the Berlin Hummpa band Die Wallerts recorded a spectacular version of Torsten Mattuschka's terrace chant:The Allofs and the Doughtys took the limelight last week in our search for brotherly goalscoring partnerships, and this week its the turn of the Van de Kerkhof and the Walters."
Have any team ever needed a tank to escape a ground? | The Knowledge 2011
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In the middle of a soccer match between the German clubs Alemannia Aachen and Hertha Berlin, female referee Bibiana Steinhaus was involved in a small incident.
Soccer Player Touches Female Ref's Breast During Game (VIDEO) The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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