prenomen
Example Sentences
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He has since generally been known in history, however, by the simple prenomen, Nero.
From Nero Makers of History Series by Jacob Abbott
These, by a curtailment or national corruption of their proper prenomen, would be ordinarily styled Sandy this, Jock that.
From Toronto of Old by Henry Scadding
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
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 Mary Addams Bayne
Old Marmaduke, for this formidable prenomen was a kind of appellative to the race, brought with him, to that asylum of the persecuted an abundance of the good things of this life.
From The Pioneers by James Fenimore Cooper
