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william
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William (died ×1095) was an eleventh-century ecclesiast. He is the second named bishop of a jurisdiction which later became the Diocese of the Isles . William is the second named bishop recorded in the Chronicle of Mann . According to this source, he was ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
masc. proper name, from Old North French Willaume , Norman form of French Guillaume , of Germanic origin (cognates: Old High German Willahelm , German Wilhelm ), from willio "will" (see will (n.)) + helma "helmet," from Proto-Germanic *helmaz "protective ...
Usage examples of william.
Rangers pretending to be Abenaki in order to keep Lord William occupied and away from her.
Edie Williams, Abram Schuster, and Mark Jackson had never meant anything to her.
That Jefferson, after attending the College of William and Mary, had read law at Wilhamsburg for five years with the eminent George Wythe, gave him still greater standing with Adams, who considered Wythe one of the ablest men in Congress.
On Monday, April 22, at the Huis ten Bosch Palace at The Hague, Adams was received by His Most Serene Highness the Prince of Orange, William V, and his wife Princess Wilhelmina in a ceremony of formal recognition.
As secretary for the American commissioners, Franklin had selected his grandson, William Temple Franklin, a decision that did not please Adams, who thought John Thaxter better qualified.
Once, for no reason other than intellectual curiosity, Adams rode to Windsor to call on the famous English astronomer Sir William Herschel, whose crowning achievement had been the discovery of the planet Uranus.
He called at 10 Downing Street for an exchange with the Prime Minister, William Pitt, the younger, who was all of twenty-four years old, who never stopped talking and impressed Adams not at all.
On June 12, Adams having returned, Nabby and Colonel William Smith were married in the house on Grosvenor Square, in a small ceremony with only a few friends present--the Copleys, among others.
A letter to Adams concerning whale oil, sent in late September, was written and signed for Jefferson by his aide, William Short.
But it was Adams who took the lead in advocating titles, voicing his views in direct opposition to a strong-willed senator from Pennsylvania, William Maclay.
Afterward, when Patrick Henry declined for reasons of health, Adams chose another southerner, the Federalist governor of North Carolina, William Davie.
The last of the ringing eulogies to Adams and Jefferson was not delivered until October of 1826, when Attorney General William Wirt addressed Congress in Washington, speaking longer even than Webster had.
William Edwards, of Cacreg, who departed this life 24th February, Anno Domini 1668, anno aetatis suae one hundred and sixty-eight.
Book written by William Molineux of Dublin, and against certain Smugglers of Alamodes and Lustrings from France.
Entrusted to the care of Prince William of Wied when he came to Albania in 1914 to serve briefly as king.