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Catharine may refer to:
- Catharine (given name)
In geography:
- Catharine, New York
- St. Catharine, Missouri
- Saint Catharine, Kentucky
- Catharine, Illinois
- Catharine, Kansas
- St. Catharines, Ontario
Catharine is a feminine given name, a variation of Katherine or Catherine. Notable people with the name include:
In education:
- Catharine Beecher, noted educator
- Catharine MacKinnon, American feminist, scholar, lawyer, teacher, and activist
- Catharine Merrill, one of the first female university professors in the United States
In literature:
- Catharine Dixon, Canadian journalist and author of non-fiction books
- Catharine Sedgwick, American novelist
In science:
- Catharine Cox, American psychologist known for her work on intelligence and genius
- Catharine Garmany, astronomer
Usage examples of "catharine".
If we were to go there, Catharine would be withdrawn from the society in which she at present mixes.
Tom was about seventeen, when Miss Catharine crossed the bridge one fine Monday morning in June with the servant, and, as was her wont, stopped to have a word or two with her friend Mike.
Miss Catharine, selecting two pairs, put down a fourpenny-piece, part of her pocket-money, twice the market value of the laces, and tripped over the bridge.
Frequently they had no pretext for resistance, for Catharine was right and they were wrong.
She had said nothing to Catharine, but she instinctively dreaded her hostility to the scheme.
Bellamy what was going to happen, begged her not to say anything to Catharine about it.
You remember, Miss Catharine, as I showed you what extrornary quarters King Tom had when he came here?
I, either, and yet that mare, although, as you say, Miss Catharine, she was never healthy, has the most wonderful pluck, as you know.
It was evening, and Catharine sat down and looked at what was left of her friend.
Miss Catharine, you remember that big white hog as you used to look at always when you went out into the meadow?
Colston called here Catharine sat like a statue and said not a word, but when her friend Mrs.
Something must be done to put Catharine on a level with the young women in her position, and my notion is that everything which will help to introduce us into society will help you.
As for Catharine, she did not object, for there was nothing in Eastthorpe attractive to her.
Misses Ponsonby speedily came to a conclusion about Catharine, and she was forthwith labelled as a young lady of natural ability, whose education had been neglected, a type perfectly familiar, recurring every quarter, and one with which they were perfectly well able to deal.
The means taken with Catharine were those which had been taken since the school began, and special attention was devoted to the branches in which she was most deficient, and which she disliked.