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Answer for the clue "Indian nun and missionary (born in Albania) dedicated to helping the poor in India (1910-1997) ", 7 letters:
theresa

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also Teresa , fem. proper name, from French Thérèse , from Latin Therasia , apparently from Greek Therasia , name of two volcanic islands, one near Sicily, one near Crete. In the top 50 most popular names for girls born in the U.S. from 1953 to 1969.

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Population (2000): 812 Housing Units (2000): 358 Land area (2000): 1.263916 sq. miles (3.273528 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.051264 sq. miles (0.132774 sq. km) Total area (2000): 1.315180 sq. miles (3.406302 sq. km) FIPS code: 73517 Located within: New ...

Usage examples of theresa.

Some of it was in kind - pearls from a dealer in Bahrain, even a box full of Maria Theresa dollars and another full of silver, presumably gifts from the local sheikhs.

Theresa chuckled, but her eyes were filled with love for John as she said it.

Yes, there had been a number of articles on Theresa Coggins published in the newspaper between 1978 and 1980.

David and Theresa Coggins went cross-country skiing on Winetka Lake near their home in south Hopkins.

La Vallee, Emily prepared to set out with her friends for Languedoc, assigning the care of her house, during her absence, to Theresa.

And Leisha had gone to her death in a Georgia swamp, murdered by Livers who despised Sleepless even more than Theresa despised herself.

He saw again the weary face of the physician in the holo, the security shield around the clinic, the Livers who had attacked his apartment building while Theresa was there.

Theresa asks her husband, Paul, for support, he resists her and appears burdened by her requests.

But Lady Theresa, whose guest she was, was shocked beyond measure, dared not guess what her father would have said, ascribed it all to her having cried off from her engagement to Rotherham, and recalled with approval her own girlhood, when she had never done so much as walk in the park at Milverley without having her footman in attendance.

One more day and I finally got it right: it turns out Theresa liked her coffee unflavored, topped with whipped cream and some caramel syrup.

Theresa, suffering from 2XS overload and postchip depression, wanders out into the streets, maybe geeks herself or gets geeked, or just crashes in an alley.

A Report, the 8th September 1776, with information concerning the rumored project of the future Emperor of Austria to invade Dalmatia after the death of Maria Theresa.

Paganel and John Mangles consulted the charts on board, and exactly on the 37th parallel found a little isle marked by the name of Maria Theresa, a sunken rock in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, 3,500 miles from the American coast, and 1,500 miles from New Zealand.

She is now living in Venice, the widow of Count de Rosenberg, who died in Venice ambassador of the Empress-Queen Maria Theresa.

He had left in the city of Parma a son who married Theresa Conti, from whom he had Jacques, who, in the year 1681, married Anna Roli.