prenomen

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Neither do I. It's perfectly horrid; and it is my standing grievance against my parents that they saddled upon their innocent babe so uncouth a prenomen.

From Crestlands A Centennial Story of Cane Ridge by Bayne, Mary Addams

He has since generally been known in history, however, by the simple prenomen, Nero.

From Nero Makers of History Series by Abbott, Jacob

The various Terraces, each with a prenomen more graceful than the other, are the same.

From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 by Various

The foreign sovereigns, however, almost always addressed the Pharaoh by his prenomen.

From The Tell El Amarna Period by Hutchison, J. (Jane)

These, by a curtailment or national corruption of their proper prenomen, would be ordinarily styled Sandy this, Jock that.

From Toronto of Old by Scadding, Henry