Definitions
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- proper noun A patronymic
surname . - proper noun A male
given name , in modern use often transferred back from the surname.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The learned judge, however, has mistaken the name Wilkie for _Willie_.
The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Hugh Binning 1640
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I saw Borges introducing it, which like an introduction by T.S. Eliot, will be worth reading, so maybe I’ll try again Wilkie Collins, at least this novel).
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Recently, I came across a folder simply titled "Wilkie Collins -- Graphics."
Carolyn Vega: Photographing the Granddaddy of Detective Fiction Carolyn Vega 2011
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Recently, I came across a folder simply titled "Wilkie Collins -- Graphics."
Carolyn Vega: Photographing the Granddaddy of Detective Fiction Carolyn Vega 2011
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Recently, I came across a folder simply titled "Wilkie Collins -- Graphics."
Carolyn Vega: Photographing the Granddaddy of Detective Fiction Carolyn Vega 2011
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Recently, I came across a folder simply titled "Wilkie Collins -- Graphics."
Carolyn Vega: Photographing the Granddaddy of Detective Fiction Carolyn Vega 2011
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Recently, I came across a folder simply titled "Wilkie Collins -- Graphics."
Carolyn Vega: Photographing the Granddaddy of Detective Fiction Carolyn Vega 2011
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While younger brothers Garth Wilkinson (called Wilkie) and Robertson (Bob) took part in a new experimental school in Concord, Mass.,
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Seated on prized Chippendale chairs, making merry around a large mahogany table in the high-ceilinged dining room, artists such as Wilkie and Landseer jostled with writers including Walter Scott, Thackeray and Dickens (the last of whom had originally been a parliamentary journalist colleague).
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There were plenty of Republican isolationists and "America First-ers" who raised objections before World War II, and who would have liked to continue causing trouble, but patriots such as Wilkie saw that "politics" had no place in wartime.
Oh, why don't you just admit it? Ann Althouse 2006
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