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elizabeth | louise |

As proper nouns the difference between elizabeth and louise

is that elizabeth is , popular since the 16th century while louise is .

elizabeth

English

Alternative forms

* Elisabeth

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • , popular since the 16th century.
  • * 1595 , Amoretti , LXXIV:
  • 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.
  • * 1988 Barbara Vine ( = ), The House of Stairs , p.21:
  • "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.
  • * 1993 , Gone But Not Forgotten , Bantam Books ISBN 0553569031 p.25:
  • 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.
  • The mother of John the Baptist .
  • * 1380s Wycliffe version of the Bible: Luke 1:5 :
  • 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 .
  • Elisheba, the wife of Aaron.
  • * 1380s Wycliffe version of the Bible: Exodus 6:23 :
  • Sotheli Aaron took a wijf, Elizabeth ,the douytir of Amynadab, the sistr of Naason.

    See also

    * (pedialite)

    louise

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • .
  • * 1890 Arthur Weir, John Arthur Lockhart: The Romance of Sir Richard. Published by William Drysdale&Co. page 83:
  • Louise , thy stately name sounds in my ear / Like a sea wave, that gathering, hill on hill, / Upon the blue horizon, smooth and still, / Sweeps to the shore
  • * 1957 , The Con Man , Armchair Detective Library (1991), ISBN 0922890935, page 47:
  • That's what I baptized her. Mary Louise'. Everybody else called her just plain Mary, but that wasn't the way I intended it. I intended it Mary '''Louise'''. That's a pretty name, isn't it? Mary ' Louise . Mary is too...plain?
  • * 1991 Emily Ellison, The Picture Makers , G.K.Hall, ISBN 0816151660, page 111:
  • I've always thought I was too large for a soft, musical name like Louise , too untidy.

    Usage notes

    Used in English since the seventeenth century, more in the U.K. than in the U.S.A. A common middle name today.