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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A region and former duchy of central Europe in southern Austria and also Italy and Slovenia. It was part of the Habsburg domains after 1335.

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  • proper noun A federal state of Austria.
  • proper noun A region in Slovenia.

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Examples

  • Are not things reversed when the name Carinthia sounds in the thought of him who laughed at the name not less angelically martial than Feltre's adored silver trumpets of his Papal procession; sweeter of the new morning for the husband of the woman; if he will but consent to the worshipper's posture?

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • Are not things reversed when the name Carinthia sounds in the thought of him who laughed at the name not less angelically martial than Feltre's adored silver trumpets of his Papal procession; sweeter of the new morning for the husband of the woman; if he will but consent to the worshipper's posture?

    The Amazing Marriage — Volume 4 George Meredith 1868

  • Are not things reversed when the name Carinthia sounds in the thought of him who laughed at the name not less angelically martial than Feltre's adored silver trumpets of his Papal procession; sweeter of the new morning for the husband of the woman; if he will but consent to the worshipper's posture?

    The Amazing Marriage — Complete George Meredith 1868

  • Baltic; that they all spoke dialects of the Wendish language, which still prevails in Carinthia, Carniola, part of Bohemia, and

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

  • His father before him, a journeyman baker from the Molltal who went to school with my father, emigrated from Carinthia to Styria at least twenty times and each time returned to Carinthia from Styria until he finally found peace in Carinthia, in Arndorf near St. Veit-on-the-Glan, where in the old smithy – his final lodgings - he hanged himelf on an iron hook because he was homesick for Styria, without, and he was reproached for this at the time and long after his death, thinking of his wife and children.

    2009 September | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS 2009

  • His father before him, a journeyman baker from the Molltal who went to school with my father, emigrated from Carinthia to Styria at least twenty times and each time returned to Carinthia from Styria until he finally found peace in Carinthia, in Arndorf near St. Veit-on-the-Glan, where in the old smithy – his final lodgings - he hanged himelf on an iron hook because he was homesick for Styria, without, and he was reproached for this at the time and long after his death, thinking of his wife and children.

    2009 September 28 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS 2009

  • His father before him, a journeyman baker from the Molltal who went to school with my father, emigrated from Carinthia to Styria at least twenty times and each time returned to Carinthia from Styria until he finally found peace in Carinthia, in Arndorf near St. Veit-on-the-Glan, where in the old smithy – his final lodgings - he hanged himelf on an iron hook because he was homesick for Styria, without, and he was reproached for this at the time and long after his death, thinking of his wife and children.

    Thomas Bernhard and NPRs Three Minute Fiction 2009

  • These techniques are generally traced to a region known as Carinthia, located now in the southern part of Austria.

    unknown title 2009

  • You remember that I wrote at a certain occasion my opinion in regard to your sermons which appeared in print in our Slavonian mother tongue, and in that my article I made also some extracts from my Latin manuscript, "On the congeniality of languages [V]," to publish them with that article in the "Carinthia" [W].

    Secret Enemies of True Republicanism Andrew B. Smolnikar

  • If he heard her call a gentleman by his Christian name, and heard the gentleman say 'Carinthia' my lord would begin to shiver at changes.

    The Amazing Marriage — Complete George Meredith 1868

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