Elizabeth vs Emily - What's the difference?
elizabeth | emily |
, popular since the 16th century.
* 1595 , Amoretti , LXXIV:
* 1988 Barbara Vine ( = ), The House of Stairs , p.21:
* 1993 , Gone But Not Forgotten , Bantam Books ISBN 0553569031 p.25:
The mother of John the Baptist .
* 1380s Wycliffe version of the Bible: Luke 1:5 :
Elisheba, the wife of Aaron.
* 1380s Wycliffe version of the Bible: Exodus 6:23 :
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* 1380s-1390s , (Geoffrey Chaucer),
* 1830 (Mary Russell Mitford), Our Village: Fourth Series: Cottage Names:
* 1980 Barbara Pym: A Few Green Leaves ISBN 0060805498 page 8:
* 2010 (Joanne Harris), blueeyedboy , Doubleday, ISBN 9780385609500, page 102:
As a proper noun elizabeth
is , popular since the 16th century.As an initialism emily is
(us|politics) early money is like yeast (ie it "raises dough", or makes money): receiving many donations early in a political race helps to attract further donors.elizabeth
English
Alternative forms
* ElisabethProper noun
(en proper noun)- Most happy letters! framed by skilful trade, / With which that happy name was first designed, - - - / Ye three Elizabeths ! for ever live, / That three such graces did unto me give.
- "Because if you say it over and over to yourself, darling, it really is a quite strange-sounding name, isn't it? It's just as strange as any other from the Old Testament, Mehetabel or Hepsibah or Shulamith, and any of them might have got to be as fashionable as Elizabeth if a queen had been called by them.
- No one ever called Elizabeth' Tannenbaum stunning, but most men found her attractive. Hardly anyone called her '''Elizabeth''', either. An "' Elizabeth " was regal, cool, an eyecatching beauty. A "Betsy" was pleasant to look at, a tiny bit overweight, capable, but still fun to be with.
- In the daies of Eroude, kyng of Judee, ther was a prest, Sakarie bi name, of the sorte of Abia, and his wijf was of the douytris of Aaron, and hir name was Elizabeth .
- Sotheli Aaron took a wijf, Elizabeth ,the douytir of Amynadab, the sistr of Naason.
See also
* (pedialite)emily
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- I am thy mortal foe, and it am I
- That so hot loveth Emily the bright,
- That I would die here present in her sight.
- People will please their fancies, and every lady has her favourite names. I myself have several, and they are mostly short and simple. - - - Emily', in which all womanly sweetness seems bound up - perhaps this is the effect of association of ideas - I have known so many charming ' Emilys
- This may have accounted for Emma's Christian name, for it had seemed to Beatrix unfair to call her daughter Emily , a name associated with her grandmother's servants rather than the author of The Wuthering Heights , so Emma had been chosen, perhaps with the hope that some of the qualities possessed by the heroine of the novel might be perpetuated.
- Emily . Em-il-y, three syllables, like a knock on the door of destiny. Such an odd, old-fashioned name, compared to those Kylies and Traceys and Jades — names that reeked of Impulse and grease and stood out in gaudy neon colours — whilst hers was that muted, dusky pink, like bubblegum, like roses —