forename
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A calm, softly spoken, scrupulously polite, seemingly ego-free individual, he refers to every journalist by their forename.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2024
Bulgaria have three players in their squad called Iliev, which I believe derives from the forename Iliya.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 15, 2021
Hopwood DePree is related to them through his great-grandmother, and Hopwood was passed down that line of the family as a forename.
From BBC ● May 4, 2019
There have been times when I feel like their pronunciation of my forename should win out over mine.
From The Guardian ● May 23, 2016
After Solomon’s time, the titular name Pharaoh never occurs alone, but only as a forename, as Pharaoh Necho, Pharaoh Hophra, Pharaoh Shishak.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
Wouldn’t we get to laugh at the prince’s ridiculous forenames?
From Slate ● May 19, 2018
It's even-steven on this score - the only difference being the spelling of their forenames.
From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2013
The boys never seem to call each other by their forenames, except when taking horrendous-sounding oaths to keep their mutual secrets, in which their full names are made part of some magical rite.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 1, 2012
In South Africa, the transgender community has won some victories - the Department of Home Affairs agreed this October to change the gender and forenames of a transgender woman.
From Reuters ● Nov. 16, 2011
The father carried the Russian forenames Michael Gregory.
From Time Magazine Archive
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