Emma vs Adam - What's the difference?
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* 1854 Matthew Hall: The Queens Before the Conquest : page 259-260:
* 1917 Carl Van Vechten: Interpreters and Interpretations. A.A.Knopf,1917. page 92:
* 1980 Barbara Pym: A Few Green Leaves ISBN 0060805498 page 8:
(Abrahamic religions) The first man and the progenitor of the human race.
* 1611 — 3:20
* 1667 — , Book VII
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* 1859 — , ch 1
* 1904 —
* 1933 — , Over the Garden Wall , Faber and Faber 1933, page 90 ("Boys' Names")
(figuratively) Original sin or human frailty.
(with'' second ''or last) Jesus Christ, whose sacrifice, in Christian theology, makes possible the forgiveness of Adam's original sin.
* 1611 — 15:45
* 1739 —
Designating a neoclassical style of furniture and architecture in the style of Robert and James Adam.
* 1936 , (HP Lovecraft), ‘The Haunter of the Dark’:
As a noun emma
is (british|dated|wwi|signalese) m in.As a proper noun adam is
(label) adam (biblical figure).emma
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Both Saxon and Norman chroniclers unite in representing the youthful Queen Emma as in a peculiar degree gifted with elegance and beauty; so that many flattering epithets had been bestowed on her - as "the Pearl," "the Flower," or "the Fair Maid" of Normandy.
- Emma' Calvé...since ''Madame Bovary'' the name '''Emma''' suggests a solid ''bourgeois'' foundation, a country family...' Emma Eames, a chilly name...a wind from the East.
- The cottage now belonged to Emma''s mother Beatrix, who was a tutor in English literature at a women's college, specialising in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novel. 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.
Usage notes
* Used in England since the Norman Conquest, fashionable in the 19th century, and again in the U.K. from the 1970s to the 1990s, and in the U.S.A. in the 1990s and the 2000s.adam
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(wikipedia Adam)Proper noun
(s)- And Adam called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.
- Say Goddess, what ensu’d when Raphael, / The affable Arch-Angel, had forewarn'd / Adam by dire example to beware / Apostasie,
- Adam Bede was a Saxon, and justified his name; but the jet-black hair, made the more noticeable by its contrast with the light paper cap, and the keen glance of the dark eyes that shone from under strongly marked, prominent and mobile eyebrows, indicated a mixture of Celtic blood.
- Since then I have deciphered some more of Adam’s hieroglyphics, and think he has now become sufficiently important as a public character to justify this publication.
- What splendid names for boys there are! / There's Carol like a rolling car, / And Martin like a flying bird, / And Adam like the Lord's First Word,
- And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
- Second Adam from above,
Reinstate us in thy love.
- Inside were six-panelled doors, wide floor-boards, a curving colonial staircase, white Adam -period mantels, and a rear set of rooms three steps below the general level.