Cecilia

Definitions

A female given name from Latin.

Equivalents

Examples

“Hark how the flutes and trumpets raise⟳ / At bright Cecilia's name⟳, their lays!”

“‘Sissy is not a name⟳,’ said Mr. Gradgrind. ‘Don’t call⟳ yourself Sissy. Call⟳ yourself Cecilia.’ ‘It’s father as calls me Sissy, sir,’ returned the young girl in a trembling voice, and with another curtsey. ‘Then he has no business to do it,’ said Mr. Gradgrind. ‘Tell⟳ him he mustn’t. Cecilia Jupe. Let⟳ me see⟳. What is your father?’”

“Because they had named her Cecilia, her parents fancied that the matter⟳ of her life and character had been fairly well settled. She would, of course, be quiet and pale and mystical, like⟳ the saint whose picture hung above the old upright piano in the Kirby living-room.”

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