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  • proper noun A surname.

Etymologies

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From a medieval diminutive of Henry.

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Examples

  • There was a frankness in Harriot's manner which I mistook for artlessness or character: she spoke with such unbounded freedom on certain subjects, that I gave her credit for unbounded sincerity on all subjects: she had the talent of making the world believe that virtue to be invulnerable by nature which disdained the common outworks of art for its defence.

    Belinda 1801

  • Her face is grow longer and thinner, and her features more marked, and the likeness which I remember to have always seen between her and Catherine Bigg is stronger than ever, and so striking is the voice and manner of speaking that I seem to be really hearing Catherine, and once or twice have been on the point of calling Harriot "Alethea."

    Jane Austen's Letters To Her Sister Cassandra and Others 1796

  • Thomas Harriot looked at the moon through a telescope just before Galileo Galilei.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Bente Lilja Bye 2009

  • Harriot stressed that the recovery would take time, eight million jobs were lost, this won't be solved in a year, and consumer spending is still weak.

    Monster Survey Suggests Hiring Pick-Up While ADP Stays Gloomy Agustino Fontevecchia 2010

  • For Harriot Smitherman of Chilton County, Ala., kudzu has become a bit of an avocation.

    Kudzu-eating bugs: Good news or bad? 2011

  • In 1609 and 1610, Thomas Harriot made a number of drawings of his telescopic observations of the Moon.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Bente Lilja Bye 2009

  • Harriot stressed that the recovery would take time, eight million jobs were lost, this won't be solved in a year, and consumer spending is still weak.

    Monster Survey Suggests Hiring Pick-Up While ADP Stays Gloomy Agustino Fontevecchia 2010

  • Jesse Harriot, senior vice-president and chief knowledge officer at Monster Worldwide

    Monster Survey Suggests Hiring Pick-Up While ADP Stays Gloomy Agustino Fontevecchia 2010

  • Jesse Harriot, senior vice-president and chief knowledge officer at Monster Worldwide

    Monster Survey Suggests Hiring Pick-Up While ADP Stays Gloomy Agustino Fontevecchia 2010

  • However, papers at West Sussex Record Office show Harriot managed it months earlier.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Bente Lilja Bye 2009

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