Andrew vs James - What's the difference?
andrew | james |
The first Apostle in the New Testament.
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* 1890 John Davidson, Perfervid: The Career of Ninian Jamieson , Ward and Downey 1890, page 94:
* 1966 (Ester Wier), The Barrel , D. McCay Co. 1966, page 57:
* 1985 , Eight Black Horses , Simon&Schuster 2003, ISBN 074346690X, page 138-139:
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(biblical) The twentieth book of the New Testament of the Bible, the general epistle of James.
One of two Apostles, .
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popular since the Middle Ages. Also a common middle name.
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* 1979 , Dateline America, Harcourt Brace Jovanocich, ISBN 0151239576, page 184:
As a proper noun andrew
is the first apostle in the new testament.As an adverb james is
.andrew
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Proper noun
(en proper noun)- One of the two which heard John speak, and followed him, was Andrew , Simon Peter's brother. He first findeth his his own brother and saith unto him, We have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the Christ.
- I like him - I like a man who can be extreme. Depend upon it, Miss Mercer - but what is his first name?" "Andrew'." "A good name, though common - there is a possibility of a sound reputation in ' Andrew Morton, especially if he narrows himself down to a point - - -
- "Well, I'd say he ought to have a Scottish name like Andrew or Bruce or Sandy...or...Duncan...or Angus or..." He ticked them off on his fingers as they came to mind.
- Lloyd was a piss-ant name. Andrew' was better because '''Andrew''' was one of the twelve apostles, and anybody with a twelve-apostle name was a good guy. If you were reading a book - which Parker rarely did - and you ran across a guy named Luke, Matthew, Thomas, Peter, Paul, James, like that, you knew right off he was supposed to be a good guy. - - - He would have preferred to be called ' Andrew , which was his true and honorable middle name.
Anagrams
* * *james
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Proper noun
(en proper noun) (Epistle of James)- Now the names of the twelve apostles are these; The first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James' the son of Zebedee, and John his brother; Philip, and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the publican; ' James the son of Alphaeus, and Lebbaeus, whose surname was Thaddaeus; Simon the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.
- And Normans call me James' Fitz-' James . / Thus watch I o'er insulted laws, / Thus learn to right the injured cause.
- Heaven only knows why a man with a strong biblical name like James wants to be a president named Jimmy.