Definitions
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- proper noun The name of a Irish saint (c. 624–704), patron saint of the Diocese of Raphoe, the biographer of St. Columba and an acquaintance of the Venerable Bede.
- proper noun A male
given name .
Etymologies
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George was probably first made well known in England by Arculpus and Adamnan in the early eighth century.
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George was probably first made well known in England by Arculpus and Adamnan in the early eighth century.
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Thus it is found in Book of Armagh and is used by Adamnan in his life of St. Columbkill written c.
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George was probably first made well known in England by Arculpus and Adamnan in the early eighth century.
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The Secretary had said, ‘The Bishop is an enemy, like the founder of his See, Saint Adamnan, who tried to injure the Gaelic language by writing in Latin’.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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He then told me that the Bishop of Raphoe13 had forbidden anybody in his See to contribute to the Gaelic League because its Secretary ‘has blasphemed against the holy Adamnan’.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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He then told me that the Bishop of Raphoe13 had forbidden anybody in his See to contribute to the Gaelic League because its Secretary ‘has blasphemed against the holy Adamnan’.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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The Secretary had said, ‘The Bishop is an enemy, like the founder of his See, Saint Adamnan, who tried to injure the Gaelic language by writing in Latin’.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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The Secretary had said, ‘The Bishop is an enemy, like the founder of his See, Saint Adamnan, who tried to injure the Gaelic language by writing in Latin’.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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He then told me that the Bishop of Raphoe13 had forbidden anybody in his See to contribute to the Gaelic League because its Secretary ‘has blasphemed against the holy Adamnan’.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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