prenomen
Example Sentences
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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
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
He has since generally been known in history, however, by the simple prenomen, Nero.
From Nero Makers of History Series by Jacob Abbott
To this influence our clay tablets bear witness by twice making emphatic reference to the days of the powerful “Manakhbiria”—the prenomen of King Thutmosis III.
From The Tell El Amarna Period by J. (Jane) Hutchison
The prenomen, or divine name of Rameses, means “The supreme solar god, abounding in truth, approved of Ra.”
From Cleopatra's Needle A History of the London Obelisk, with an Exposition of the Hieroglyphics by James King
