Meaning of Niobe | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A daughter of Tantalus, said to have turned into stone while weeping for her children.
   Greek
2. A crying woman; a woman who is bereaved or inconsolable.
3. A daughter of Phoroneus and Teledice.
   Greek
4. 71 Niobe, a main belt asteroid.
5. A female given name from Ancient Greek.

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Examples

“With which she followed my poore Fathers body / Like Niobe, all teares.”

“There is a word will Priam turne to stone, Make wells and Niobe’s of the maides and wiues.”

“But when a man has been ranging, like the painful bee, from flower to flower, perhaps for a month together, and the thoughts of home and wife begin to have their charms with him, to be received by a Niobe, who, like a wounded vine, weeps her vitals away, while she but involuntarily curls about him; how shall I be able to bear that?”

“Here poor Mrs Vincy's spirit quite broke down, and her Niobe throat and good-humoured face were sadly convulsed.”

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