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Pure; Clear; Courage; Purity; Yeats; Countess; Devil
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English
English : from Middle English contas(e), Old French contesse ‘countess’, applied as a nickname for a proud, haughty woman or for an effeminate or foppish man, or as an occupational name for a servant of a countess.
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Feminine Equivalent of Count; Titled
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Harvester; Theresa; Fourth Child; Countess; Essence
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Irish
Devotion to St. Catherine came to Ireland with Christianity. Revered for her courage and purity, Catherine in the Irish form, Cathleen, became such a popular name that W. B. Yeats chose it for the heroine of his 1899 play “The Countess Cathleen†which was inspired by an Irish folktale. In a time of famine the Devil offers food to the starving poor in exchange for their souls. But Cathleen convinces Satan to take her soul instead. When she dies the Devil comes to collect her soul but God intervenes and carries Cathleen to heaven, saying that “such a sacrificial act cannot justly lead to evil consequences.â€
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English
English : variant spelling of Countess.
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Irish
Devotion to St. Catherine came to Ireland with Christianity. Revered for her courage and purity, Catherine in the Irish form, Cathleen, became such a popular name that W. B. Yeats chose it for the heroine of his 1899 play “The Countess Cathleen†which was inspired by an Irish folktale. In a time of famine the Devil offers food to the starving poor in exchange for their souls. But Cathleen convinces Satan to take her soul instead. When she dies the Devil comes to collect her soul but God intervenes and carries Cathleen to heaven, saying that “such a sacrificial act cannot justly lead to evil consequences.â€
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Noble Woman; Leader; Princess; Warrior; Countess; Shield
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English
Titled. Feminine equivalent of Count.
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Irish
Devotion to St. Catherine came to Ireland with Christianity. Revered for her courage and purity, Catherine in the Irish form, Cathleen, became such a popular name that W. B. Yeats chose it for the heroine of his 1899 play “The Countess Cathleen†which was inspired by an Irish folktale. In a time of famine the Devil offers food to the starving poor in exchange for their souls. But Cathleen convinces Satan to take her soul instead. When she dies the Devil comes to collect her soul but God intervenes and carries Cathleen to heaven, saying that “such a sacrificial act cannot justly lead to evil consequences.â€
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Shakespearean
Henry VI, Part 1' Countess of Auvergne.
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All's Well That Ends Well.' A clown and servant to the Countess of Rousillon.
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Beautiful
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Tamil
Nandakini | நஂதாகீநீ
Name of a river
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Tamil
Shashishekhar | ஷஷிஷேகரÂ
Lord Shiva
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Hindu
Illuminated
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Hindu, Indian, Kannada
God; King of God
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Swedish (Nordén)
Swedish (Nordén) : ornamental name formed with norr, nord ‘north’ + the common surname suffix -én, from Latin -enius.North German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : habitational name from any of several places so called in East Friesland, Schleswig-Holstein, and former East Prussia. The German surname may have arisen as a topographic name from a field so named because of its northerly aspect.Dutch : patronymic from Nord 3.English : habitational name from a minor place name, probably Norden in West Alvington, Devon, or possibly Norton Green in Stockbury, Kent.
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Muslim
Revelation of the merciful
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Muslim
Exalted, Noble
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Australian, French, Greek, Shakespearean
Brother of Agamemnon
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Hindu, Indian
Shiva
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n.
A nobleman of England ranking below a marquis, and above a viscount. The rank of an earl corresponds to that of a count (comte) in France, and graf in Germany. Hence the wife of an earl is still called countess. See Count.
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n.
The wife of an earl in the British peerage, or of a count in the Continental nobility; also, a lady possessed of the same dignity in her own right. See the Note under Count.