Eric vs Samantha - What's the difference?
eric | samantha |
A fine paid as compensation for violent crimes.
* 1948 (revised 1952), Robert Graves, The White Goddess , Faber & Faber 1999, p. 18:
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* 1876 Phebe Ann Hanaford, Women of the Century , page 525:
* 1888 , (Marietta Holley), Josiah Allen's Wife as a P.A. and P.I.: Samantha at the Centennial , page 577:
* 1967 (Howard Fast), Samantha , I Books (2004), ISBN 0743479122, page 42:
* 1985 (Bobbie Ann Mason), In Country , Harper&Row, ISBN 0060154691, pages 182, 183:
As proper nouns the difference between eric and samantha
is that eric is , cognate to eric while samantha is .eric
English
Noun
(en noun)- The court-poets of Wales [...] could demand an eric of ‘nine cows, and nine-score pence of money besides’.
References
* OED 2nd edition 1989Anagrams
*samantha
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- These country girls, as they were called, had queer names, which added to the singularity of their appearance. Samantha , Triphena, Plumy, Leafy, Ruhamah, Lovey, and Florilla were among them.
- "Its name is Samantha' Jo, after Josiah and me. - - - If it had been a boy, we was layin' out to call it Josiah Sam, - Sam for ' Samantha ."
- "Middle of the depression - who's going to give a kid a nutty name like Samantha ? Today's another matter, but around then, from what I hear, people weren't thinking about these stylish names."
- But here's my favorite name: Samuel. It's from the Bible. If it's a girl, name it Samantha . That sounds like something in a prayer, doesn't it? I think it's a name in the Chronicles. I've been reading the Bible every night." - - -
- She found the Book of Chronicles and scanned it. - - - There was no Samantha in either the first or the second book of the Chronicles.