Cornelius
Pronunciation Proper noun
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Pronunciation Proper noun
- A male given name.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Acts 10:1-2 ↗:
- There was a certain man in Cesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italian band, A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway.
- 2014 Joyce Carol Oates, Carthage, Fourth Estate, ISBN 9780007485741, page 213:
- The intern will not call me 'Cornelius―(in fact, that dowdy old name isn't my actual name nor, at the present time, my nom de guerre)―but 'Dr. Hinton*―or 'sir'―will do.
- feminine form: Cornelia
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