Andrew vs Wesley - What's the difference?
andrew | wesley |
The first Apostle in the New Testament.
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* 1890 John Davidson, Perfervid: The Career of Ninian Jamieson , Ward and Downey 1890, page 94:
* 1966 (Ester Wier), The Barrel , D. McCay Co. 1966, page 57:
* 1985 , Eight Black Horses , Simon&Schuster 2003, ISBN 074346690X, page 138-139:
A village in Alberta, Canada
A city in Iowa
An unincorporated community in West Virginia
, founder of Methodism.
, transferred from the surname since the 18th century, today often without any religious connotations.
As proper nouns the difference between andrew and wesley
is that andrew is the first Apostle in the New Testament while Wesley is {{surname|habitational|from=Old English}.andrew
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- One of the two which heard John speak, and followed him, was Andrew , Simon Peter's brother. He first findeth his his own brother and saith unto him, We have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the Christ.
- I like him - I like a man who can be extreme. Depend upon it, Miss Mercer - but what is his first name?" "Andrew'." "A good name, though common - there is a possibility of a sound reputation in ' Andrew Morton, especially if he narrows himself down to a point - - -
- "Well, I'd say he ought to have a Scottish name like Andrew or Bruce or Sandy...or...Duncan...or Angus or..." He ticked them off on his fingers as they came to mind.
- Lloyd was a piss-ant name. Andrew' was better because '''Andrew''' was one of the twelve apostles, and anybody with a twelve-apostle name was a good guy. If you were reading a book - which Parker rarely did - and you ran across a guy named Luke, Matthew, Thomas, Peter, Paul, James, like that, you knew right off he was supposed to be a good guy. - - - He would have preferred to be called ' Andrew , which was his true and honorable middle name.