Frances
English
Pronunciation
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Etymology 1
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French Franceise, feminine form of Franceis, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95: Parameter 1 should be a valid language code; the value "LL." is not valid. See WT:LOL. Franciscus (“Frankish”).
Proper noun
Frances
- A female given name from Latin, feminine form of Francis.
- c.1590 William Shakespeare: Love's Labour's Lost: Act III, Scene I:
- Armado. Sirrah Costard, I will enfranchise thee.
- Costard. O! marry me to one Frances: I smell some l'envoy, some goose, in this.
- 1883 Wilkie Collins, Heart and Science, Chatto and Windus, page 227:
- "My name is Frances. Don't call me Fanny!" "Why not?" "Because it's too absurd to be endured! What does the mere sound of Fanny suggest? A flirting dancing creature - plump and fair, and playful and pretty! - - - Call me Frances - a man's name, with only the difference between an i and an e. No sentiment in it, hard, like me."
- 1961 Janet Frame, Owls Do Cry, →ISBN, page 97:
- My other sisters had interesting names. There was Francie, that was Frances, and though she wore slacks and my father seemed angry with her, I thought she was some relation to Saint Francis, who, I believed, kept animals in his pocket and took them out and licked them, the way Francie licked a blackball or acid drop, for pure love.
- c.1590 William Shakespeare: Love's Labour's Lost: Act III, Scene I:
Related terms
Translations
feminine form of Francis
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Etymology 2
Proper noun
Frances
- plural of France
- 1967, Eric A. Nordlinger, The Working-class Tories, page 236:
- The malaise of French politics has commonly been interpreted as a product of a deep-seated conflict between the ‘two Frances’.
- 1998, Shanny Peer, France on Display: Peasants, Provincials, and Folklore, →ISBN, page 2:
- Although scholars have offered different chronologies and causalities for the move toward modernity, most have resolved the paradox of the two Frances by placing them in sequence: "diverse France gave way over time as modern centralized France gathered force."
- 2013, Making Sense of the Secular: Critical Perspectives →ISBN, page 48:
- Was it the end of the long conflict between the two Frances? Yes and no.
- 1967, Eric A. Nordlinger, The Working-class Tories, page 236:
Portuguese
Noun
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Adjective
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