Paul vs Anthony - What's the difference?
paul | anthony |
In the New Testament, Apostle to the Gentiles and author of fourteen epistles.
* : Acts 9:4 :
of biblical origin.
* 1848 (Charles Dickens), :
A city in Idaho.
, in regular use since the Middle Ages.
* 1922 , The Beautiful and Damned :
* 1952 Thomas Pyles, Words and Ways of American English , Random House, page 245:
* 1955 (Joseph Heller), Catch-22 , Chapter Five:
A city in Kansas
A city in New Mexico
A town in Texas
As a noun paul
is an old italian silver coin; a paolo or paul can be .As a proper noun anthony is
, in regular use since the middle ages.paul
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Then Saul, ( who is also called Paul ,) filled with the Holy Ghost, set his eyes on him
- 'He will be christened Paul , my - Mrs Dombey - of course.'
- She feebly echoed, 'Of course,' or rather expressed it by the motion of her lips, and closed her eyes again.
- 'His father's name, Mrs Dombey, and his grandfather's! I wish his grandfather were alive this day! There is some inconvenience in the necessity of writing Junior,' said Mr Dombey, making a fictitious autograph on his knee; 'but it is merely of a private and personal complexion. It doesn't enter into the correspondence of the House. Its signature remains the same.'
Derived terms
* rob Peter to pay Paul * Saint Paul * PaulineAnagrams
* ----anthony
English
Alternative forms
* AntonyProper noun
(en proper noun)- "...Think you've got the best name I've heard," she was saying. - - "Anthony' Patch. Only you ought to look sort of like a horse, with a long narrow face - and you ought to be in tatters." "That's the Patch part though. How should '''Anthony''' look?" "You look like ' Anthony ," she assured him seriously - he thought she had scarcely seen him - "rather majestic," she continued, " and solemn."
- It is doubtless true that American English lacks a tradition for the pronunciation of Anthony'' , a name which was not often bestowed upon American males until the comparatively recent craze for supposedly swank "British" Christian names, like ''Stephen'', ''Peter'', ''Michael , etc., in this country.
- She was built like a dream and wore a chain around her neck with a medal of Saint Anthony' hanging down inside the most beautiful bosom I never saw. "It must be a terrible temptation for Saint '''Anthony'''," I joked - just to put her at ease, you know. "Saint '''Anthony'''?" her husband said. "Who's Saint ' Anthony ?"