Meaning of prenom | Babel Free

Definitions

A formal title or honorific descriptor that precedes the name. For example, in "The Great and Powerful Oz", "The Great and Powerful" is a prenom.

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Examples

“The same is also proved of the first and last⟳ characters of the group by their appearing in cartouches that are confessedly ideagraphic; one of them in the prenom of No. 26, and the other in No. 29 (or 115 of the plates of the Precis)., which is a variation of that of the king supposed to have⟳ been called Ramasis.”

“The signification of the prenom is shown to have⟳ been that this ancient sovereign was “beloved by Phthah ;" the succeeding Ptolemies were forced upon the necessity of some mark⟳ of distinction in the record⟳ of their names; for this purpose each succeeding monarch had simply but to change⟳ the prenominal insignia of his predecessor by the addition of some emblem or symbol.”

“This is the Prusso-Michigan system, and not a department of it, and this is the system which, instead of being treated as a by-word, should be honored and upheld by every conservative citizen who desires to preserve⟳ and perpetuate our representative institutions, whether he delights in the prenom of democrat or republican.”

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