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brittany | intension |

As a proper noun brittany

is a region in north-west france.

As a noun intension is

intensity or the act of becoming intense .

brittany

English

Alternative forms

* (female given name) Britney, Brittney

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • A region in north-west France.
  • * 1595 , (William Shakespeare), King Henry VI, part 3 , First Folio 1623, Act II, Scene VI:
  • *:First, will I see the Coronation, / And then to Britanny Ile crosse the Sea, / To effect this marriage, so it please my Lord.
  • (obsolete, chiefly, poetic) The British Isles.
  • *1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.11:
  • *:The noble Thamis […] seem'd to stoupe afore / With bowed backe, by reason of the lode / And auncient heavy burden which he bore / Of that faire City, wherein make abode / So many learned impes, that shoote abrode, / And with their braunches spred all Britany […].
  • popular in the United States in the 1980s and 1990s.
  • * 1990 (Alice Munro), Friend of My Youth , ISBN 0679729577, page 102:
  • - - - No one has family names. These girls with rooster hair I see on the streets. They pick the names. They're the mothers." "I have a granddaughter named Brittany ," Hazel said. " And I have heard of a little girl called Cappuccino." "Cappuccino! Is that true? Why don't they call one Cassaulet? Fettuccini? Alsace-Lorraine?"
  • * 1999 (Andrew Pyper), Lost Girls : Chapter Ten:
  • Names of the times. Borrowed from soap opera characters of prominence fifteen years ago, who have since been replaced by spiffy new models: the social-climbing Brittany'' now an unscrupulous ''Burke'', the generous ''Pamela'' a refitted, urbanized ''Parker .

    See also

    *

    intension

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • intensity or the act of becoming intense .
  • * Francis Bacon
  • Sounds likewise do rise and fall with the intension or remission of the wind.
  • (logic, semantics) Any property or quality connoted by a word, phrase or other symbol, contrasted to actual instances in the real world to which the term applies.
  • * Sir W. Hamilton
  • This law is, that the intension of our knowledge is in the inverse ratio of its extension.
  • (dated) A straining, stretching, or bending; the state of being strained.
  • the intension of a musical string

    Usage notes

    Not to be confused with intention.

    Derived terms

    * intensional

    References

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