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Joshua vs Julie - What's the difference?

joshua | julie |

As proper nouns the difference between joshua and julie

is that joshua is the sixth book of the Old Testament of Bible, and a book of the Tanakh while Julie is {{given name|female|from=French|}}. Popular in the latter half of the twentieth century.

joshua

English

(Book of Joshua)

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • The sixth book of the Old Testament of Bible, and a book of the Tanakh.
  • The son of Nun, Judge of Israel following Moses; author of the Book of Joshua; Quranic figure.
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  • So Joshua' took the whole land, according to all that the Lord said unto Moses; and ' Joshua gave it for an inheritance unto Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land rested from war.
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  • * 1835 The Literary Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds. To Which is Prefixed a Memoir by H.W.Beechey , London:T.Cadell, Strand, page 33:
  • "His father had a notion," observes Malone, on the authority of Dr. Percy, Bishop of Dromore, "that it might at some future period of his life be an advantage to a child to bear an uncommon Christian name, - - - Hence our author derived the scriptural name of Joshua , which, though not very uncommon, occurs less frequently than many others." But another biographer has suggested, with more appearance of reason, that it was probably given to him because an uncle, who was one of his godfathers, bore the same name,

    julie

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • . Popular in the latter half of the twentieth century.
  • * 1813 , Tracy , Poems by George Crabbe, Adolphus William Ward,The University Press 1907, page 455:
  • The first-born Child had every dawning Grace / And promis'd Beauty in her form and face. / "We'll call her Julie' if you please, my dear," / The Mother cry'd, "I doat on ' Julie Vere." / "What! no Remembrance of her Aunt! for Shame! / You doat indeed! be Barbara her name!"
  • * 1917 , Cousin Julia , D. Appleton and Company, page 3:
  • "I loathe the name of Julia. Julie , in the French way, is quite pretty, but Julia! - "
    "Call her Cousin Julie then; I've no doubt she'll prefer it. She's nothing if not progressive, I believe."
  • * 2000 Jayne Anne Phillips: Mother Kind : page 156:
  • They were called Jim & Julie , professionally. It seemed such a waste to deal in fantasy, in illusion and pretend, and not christen one's endeavor more suggestively. Kate wondered if their real names were Letitia and Sylvester, or Cleopatra and Mandrake; perhaps they'd gone undercover with white-bread names in quest of posh children's parties and Yankee suitability.