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Isabel vs Elizabeth - What's the difference?

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Isabel is a related term of elizabeth.

isabel

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • .
  • * : Act V, Scene I:
    • Mariana . O my good lord! Sweet Isabel , take my part:
  • *:: Lend me your knees, and all my life to come,
  • *:: I'll lend you all my life to do you service.
  • * 1852 D. H. Jacques, A Chapter on Names , The Knickerbocker, or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Volume XL, August 1852, page 119:
    • There is a silvery bell-like music in the name, which is exceedingly attractive, and which has made it a favorite with the poets. - - - Mary Howitt, in her Flower comparisons, has the following melodious lines:
    Now for mad-cap Isabel': / What shall suit her, pr'y thee tell? / ' Isabel is brown and wild; /Will be evermore a child;
  • * 1994 Barbara Vine (), No Night Is Too Long , ISBN 067085560X, page 110:
    • I'm glad you spell your name like that. It's the best of all the ways to spell Isabel .
  • * 2002 Cynthia Heimel: If You Can't Live Without Me, Why Aren't You Dead Yet? Grove Press 2002. ISBN 0802139507 page 177:
    • How many poor girls, who would have been wild and raging and beautiful and free sex goddesses if only their parents had found it in their hearts to name them Isabel , instead had to stuff their poor psyches into the name Heather?
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    • Usage notes

    * Isabel and Elizabeth were interchangeable in English records up to the 16th century.

    Related terms

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    Anagrams

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    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.

    Related terms

    * Elizabethan * Bess * Bessie * Bessy * Bet * Beth * Betsy * Bettie * Betty * Biz * Elisabet * Elisabeth * Elise * Eliza * Ellie * Elsa * Elsie * Elspeth * Isabel * Isabella * Isabelle * Izzy * Libby * Lilly * Lily * Lisa * Lise * Lisetta * Lisette * Liz * Liza * Lizardbreath * Lisbeth * Lizbeth * Lizzie * Lizzy * Yelizaveta

    See also

    * (pedialite)