Mother Teresa
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Appellativisation of Mother Teresa, an Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary.
Proper noun
[edit]Translations
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See also
[edit]Mother Teresa on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Noun
[edit]Mother Teresa (plural Mother Teresas)
- A person who is completely unselfish to the point of being saintly.
- 1979, Mary Jane Linn, Matthew Linn, Dennis Linn, Healing the Dying: Releasing People to Die, page 1:
- To the degree we have Jesus within us, we are all gifted to be a Mother Teresa.
- 1998, Arnold B. Cheyney, People of Purpose: 80 People Who Have Made a Difference, page 149:
- Do you know someone who comes close to being a Mother Teresa?
- 2008, Johnny Ong, Don't Live Your Live in One Day, page 28:
- I am not saying that we should all be a Mother Teresa.
- 2011, Louis Faust, Ruma Bose, Mother Teresa, CEO: Unexpected Principles for Practical Leadership, page 18:
- As a leader you should ask yourself, “What are you a Mother Teresa of?”
- 2013, Horatio M, Natasha Bennett, How to Be a Good Person - Without Being Religious:
- You do not have to be a Mother Teresa to care.
- 2018, Time Magazine Editors, TIME Mother Teresa: The Life and Works of a Modern Saint:
- And yet Pope Francis could just as easily be called a Mother Teresa pope.
Further reading
[edit]- “Mother Teresa”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “Teresa”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “Mother Teresa”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.