Meaning of Amyas | Babel Free

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A male given name from Latin.

literary, rare

Examples

“The morrow next about the wanted howre, / The Dwarfe cald at the doore of Amyas, / To come forthwith unto his Ladies bowre.”

“Because there was fellow-feeling of old in merry England, in county and in town; and these are Devon men, and men of Bideford, whose names are Amyas Leigh of Burrough, John Staveley, Michael Heard, and Jonas Marshall of Bideford, and Thomas Braund of Clovelly: and they, the first of all English mariners, have sailed round the world with Francis Drake, and are come hither to give God thanks.”

“She was an admirer of Kingsley. That's why she called her son Amyas. His father scoffed at the name - but he gave in.”

CEFR level