Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
patronymic .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Same as
patronymic .
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- adjective
patronymic
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Examples
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Frances Noyes H.rt is assured membership in our CCC (Club of Criminological Creatures) by virtue of her surname - as are Jonathan Stagge and Clinton H. Stagg (the latter recorded the adventures of an early blind detective, Thornley Colton), and for the same patronymical reason, Cyril H.re.
In The Queens' Parlour Queen, Ellery 1864
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