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Answer for the clue "Name meaning "God's gift" ", 8 letters:
theodore

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
masc. proper name, from Latin Theodorus , from Greek Theodoros , literally "gift of god," from theos "god" (see theo- ) + doron "gift" (see date (n.1)). The fem. form is Theodora .

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Theodore is an English masculine given name and surname. It comes from the Greek name Θεόδωρος ( Theodōros ) meaning "God's gift" (from the Greek words Θεός, ( theos ) "God" and δώρον ( dōron ) "gift"). The name was popular among early Christians and was ...

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No one will ever know, but it is perfectly possible that as the sun rose higher that cloudless morning, Adams felt contentment of a kind he had not known for years--once he got over the fact that traveling with him on the same stage, as chance would have it, was Theodore Sedgwick.

Now, under the Presidency of Theodore Formose, there lived in a peaceable suburb of Alca a monk called Agaric, who kept a school and assisted in arranging marriages.

Aboard the Theodore Knight, the crew and officers cheered their destruction of the Japanese submarine as they watched the telltale slick of black oil and fuel pool on the surface like a death cloud above the sunken boat.

In one of these comic operas he makes use of slander against King Theodore and the Venetian Republic, which he turns into ridicule by means of pitiful lies.

NETSCO had a group that was intellectually the equal of ours at Romberg AG: Niels Bohr, Theodore von Karman, Norbert Weiner, and Marie Curie.

A century ago the Samian goldsmith Theodore had fashioned an elaborate grape vine of solid gold which curves about and around and above the bed, giving the impression of a metallic vineyard whose vines produce not grapes but precious stones.

Miss Dorothy Borg and Professors Theodore Ropp of Duke University, Doak Barnett of Columbia, James MacGregor Burns of Williams College and Lyman Van Slyke of Stanford.

Theodore Soars-With-Eagles in his tepee, his warbonnet and toupee askew.

The third column, called the Independent Regular Brigade, and directed to proceed through the western section of the island, was commanded by Brigadier-General Theodore Schwan, and had two engagements with the Alphonso XIII Regiment of Cazadores.

He was loafing on a street corner, with Carrots and two other boys, one night, when Theodore passed them on his way home from school.

Then Dick held a brief conference with Carrots and the other two, and all four set off hastily in the direction that Theodore had taken.

Theodore Gives Carrots a Chance Theodore dreaded to go home that night.

Jimmy Hunt openly rejoiced, feeling that Carrots had got his deserts at last, but Theodore was troubled and disheartened over the matter.

Theodore had set out a table with a good supper for the two, and Carrots ate as if he enjoyed the food.

Major Theodore Dobbins, age forty-six, dishonorably discharged for embezzlement, served three terms for fraud in England, one for robbery in Australia.