Historical vs Valerius - What's the difference?
historical | valerius |
A historical romance.
* 1999 , Anne K. Kaler, Rosemary E. Johnson-Kurek, Romantic Conventions , page 63:
of mostly historical use in English.
* 1920 : In Chancery:I: Chapter 2:
As an adjective historical
is pertaining to the history, to what happened in the past.As a noun historical
is a historical romance.As a proper noun valerius is
of mostly historical use in english.historical
English
Usage notes
* * See the usage notes about (m) for more.Synonyms
* historicDerived terms
* ahistorical * art-historicalNoun
(en noun)- However, as regular romance readers know, the romance novels that appear on the best-seller lists are not Harlequins at all, but rather historicals and contemporaries, which vary widely from the Harlequin pattern in style, plot, and character.
valerius
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- "Here you are!" said George, pointing with his cigar. "Cato - Publius Valerius' by Virgil out of Lydia. That's what you want. Publius ' Valerius is Christian enough."
- Dartie, on arriving home, had informed Winifred. She had been charmed. It was so 'chic'. And Publius Valerius became the baby's name, though it afterwards transpired that they had got hold of the inferior Cato. In 1890, however, when little Publius was nearly ten, the word 'chic' went out of fashion, and sobriety came in; Winifred began to have doubts. They were confirmed by little Publius himself, who returned from his first term at school complaining that life was a burden to him - they called him Pubby. Winifred - a woman of real decision - promptly changed his school and his name to Val, the Publius being dropped even as an initial.