Laurence
Proper noun
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Proper noun
- A male given name
- ~1591 William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Scene IV
- Romeo: Bid her devise / Some means to come to shrift this afternoon; / And there she shall at Friar Laurence' cell / Be shriv'd and married.
- 1835 Mary Shelley, Lodore, Wallis&Newell 1835, page 30:
- "I will do any thing, however impossible, if you will only not call me Mr Hervey. Why am I not Laurence to you - Miss Vivian calls me Laurence - I am Laurence to every one but you - let me hear you call me Laurence," in an earnest manner.
- ~1591 William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Scene IV
- Surname
- French: Laurent
- German: Lorenz
- Italian: Lorenzo
- Portuguese: Lourenço, Laurêncio
- Russian: Лавре́нтий
- Spanish: Lorenzo
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