Jolyon

Definitions

A male given name from Latin, in quiet use since the 1920s.

Examples

“In that Summer of 1909 the simple souls who even then desired to simplify⟳ the English tongue, had, of course, no cognizance of little Jon, or they would have⟳ claimed him for a disciple. But one can be too simple in this life, for his real name⟳ was Jolyon, and his living father and dead half-brother had usurped of old the other shortenings, Jo and Jolly. As a fact little Jon had done his best to conform to convention and spell⟳ himself first Jhon, then John; not till his father had explained the sheer necessity, had he spelled his name⟳ Jon.”

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