Definitions

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  • proper noun A patronymic surname.

Etymologies

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From Hugh + patronymic suffix -s.

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Examples

  • Hewes is so cut-throat, manipulative and brilliant that it makes James Woods’ Sebastian SHARK look like a guppy.

    The TV Addict Previews DAMAGES | the TV addict 2007

  • Jones would later refer to Hewes, a North Carolina merchant, as “the angel of my happiness” for his efforts to promote Jones’s career.

    John Paul Jones 9781451603996 2003

  • Jones would later refer to Hewes, a North Carolina merchant, as “the angel of my happiness” for his efforts to promote Jones’s career.

    John Paul Jones 9781451603996 2003

  • But driven in part by panic over declining ratings for "live," or non-DVR viewing, the broadcast networks appear to be shying away from the kind of complicated, character-driven, serialized fare that allows viewers to form ongoing connections with intriguing people such as Hewes and Frobisher.

    unknown title 2009

  • But driven in part by panic over declining ratings for "live," or non-DVR viewing, the broadcast networks appear to be shying away from the kind of complicated, character-driven, serialized fare that allows viewers to form ongoing connections with intriguing people such as Hewes and Frobisher.

    unknown title 2009

  • But driven in part by panic over declining ratings for "live," or non-DVR viewing, the broadcast networks appear to be shying away from the kind of complicated, character-driven, serialized fare that allows viewers to form ongoing connections with intriguing people such as Hewes and Frobisher.

    unknown title 2009

  • But it is my duty to tell you, what you appear to be apprehensive of, that your power will not annul M 'Hewes's agency according to the opperation of y* present laws.

    Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society 1792

  • If they are put into M 'Hewes's hands, he will receive whatever is recoverable on them, and from the nature of his office as agent must dispose thereof according as y* law directs, independently of your attorneys or yourself.

    Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society 1792

  • While the young lawyer no longer works for Hewes & Associates, she still treats Patty as a kind of mentor.

    On the Set: Damages Lives to Fight Another Case 2011

  • Whereas Damages, still sleekly suspenseful and lethally cynical, reboots by jumping three years ahead in the lives of cunning power lawyer Patty Hewes (Glenn Close) and her estranged protégé Ellen Parsons (Rose Byrne), whose crusading idealism is challenged by her latest very topical cause: the unregulated and possibly illegal excesses of a private-security military contractor in Afghanistan.

    Roush Review: Rescue Me and Damages 2011

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