Terence vs Terrence - What's the difference?
terence | terrence | Alternative forms |
. Popular in the U.K. in the mid-twentieth century.
* 1867 : Chapter I:
* 1963 Jane McIlvaine, Cammie's Cousin , Bobbs-Merrill, page 58:
Terrence is a alternative form of terence.
As proper nouns the difference between terence and terrence
is that terence is a given name derived from Latin. Popular in the U.K. in the mid-twentieth century while Terrence is a given name derived from Latin A variant of Terence.terence
English
Alternative forms
* Terrance * Terrence * TeranceProper noun
(en proper noun)- "Very likely the ragged scion of one of those Irish gentry, who has taken naturally to 'the road'. He should be at school - though I warrant me his knowledge of Terence will not extend beyond his own name," said Lord Henry Somerset, aid-de-camp to the Lord Lieutenant.
- They had an expensive, well-cut air which was like a uniform, and their conversation was all about people with names like Terence and Geoffrey, Philippa and Vivien, who lived in London and County Wicklow and who were "terribly amusing".