Louise vs Lois - What's the difference?
louise | lois |
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* 1890 Arthur Weir, John Arthur Lockhart: The Romance of Sir Richard. Published by William Drysdale&Co. page 83:
* 1957 , The Con Man , Armchair Detective Library (1991), ISBN 0922890935, page 47:
* 1991 Emily Ellison, The Picture Makers , G.K.Hall, ISBN 0816151660, page 111:
The grandmother of Timothy who is mentioned in an epistle to him.
* : 2 Timothy 1: 5 :
of biblical origin.
* 1962 V.S.Naipaul: ''The Middle Passage: p.48:
As proper nouns the difference between louise and lois
is that louise is while lois is lois (female name).louise
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Louise , thy stately name sounds in my ear / Like a sea wave, that gathering, hill on hill, / Upon the blue horizon, smooth and still, / Sweeps to the shore
- That's what I baptized her. Mary Louise'. Everybody else called her just plain Mary, but that wasn't the way I intended it. I intended it Mary '''Louise'''. That's a pretty name, isn't it? Mary ' Louise . Mary is too...plain?
- I've always thought I was too large for a soft, musical name like Louise , too untidy.
Usage notes
Used in English since the seventeenth century, more in the U.K. than in the U.S.A. A common middle name today.lois
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois , and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.
- Modernity might also lie in a name like Lois' - pronounced Loys in Trinidad - which came to the island in the 1940s through '''Lois Lane, the heroine of the American ''Superman comic strip.