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  • So if it's a girl, you could call her Hepzibah, which is a very pretty name in Hebrew, and that would take care of your Aunt Hetty.

    Saturday the Rabbi Went Hungry Kemelman, Harry 1966

  • She throws him a cold glance—at odds with the heat radiating out from her body—and states, “I’m known as Hepzibah, not Sheila.”

    Blood Lite II: Overbite Kevin J. Anderson 2010

  • "Hepzibah," asked Clifford, after watching Phoebe to the corner, "do you never go to church?"

    The House of the Seven Gables 1851

  • "Hepzibah," asked Clifford, after watching Phoebe to the corner, "do you never go to church?"

    The House of the Seven Gables 1851

  • "Hepzibah," asked Clifford, after watching Phoebe to the corner, "do you never go to church?"

    House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

  • Her father wanting her to be called Hepzibah, but insisting that she was to have a Scripture name at any rate; and Mrs Bradshaw wanting her to be Juliana, after some novel she had read not long before; and at last Jemima was fixed upon, because it would do either for a Scripture name or a name for a heroine out of a book. "

    Ruth Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

  • Nathaniel Hawthorne's excellent The House of the Seven Gables is a pretty sobering novel, though one has to chuckle at those scenes of the overeating "little Ned Wiggins" at Hepzibah Pyncheon's little store.

    Dave Astor: Serious Novelists Are Sometimes Surprisingly Funny Dave Astor 2012

  • Nathaniel Hawthorne's excellent The House of the Seven Gables is a pretty sobering novel, though one has to chuckle at those scenes of the overeating "little Ned Wiggins" at Hepzibah Pyncheon's little store.

    Dave Astor: Serious Novelists Are Sometimes Surprisingly Funny Dave Astor 2012

  • “So do I call you Hepzibah or Salome?” asks Goldberg.

    Blood Lite II: Overbite Kevin J. Anderson 2010

  • Well, his hair starts arguing amongst itself about which of them Hepzibah McCoy would most love to run her fingers through, and I pick up my scissors and go to work on Basil, and everything is going along nicely when suddenly he turns his head.

    Blood Lite II: Overbite Kevin J. Anderson 2010

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