Cynthia
Pronunciation Proper noun
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Pronunciation Proper noun
- Artemis (Greek goddess).
- (literary) The Moon.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book 3, Canto 1:
- As when faire Cynthia, in darkesome night, / Is in a noyous cloud enveloped [...].
- 1601, Ben Jonson, Hymn to Diana:
- [...] Cynthia's shining orb was made / Heav'n to clear when day did close [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book 3, Canto 1:
- A female given name.
- 1866, Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters, Chapter 10:
- “Cynthia seems to me such an out-of-the-way name, only fit for poetry, not for daily use.”
- 1978, Graham Greene, The Human Factor, ISBN 0671240854, p. 59:
- Cynthia, the domestic-minded, looked as dashing as a young commando. It was a pity that her spelling was so bad, but perhaps there was something Elizabethan about her spelling as well as about her name.
- 1866, Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters, Chapter 10:
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