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  • proper noun A patronymic surname.

Etymologies

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From a Middle English diminutive of Hugh +‎ -son.

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Examples

  • Robert Hewison would argue that I'm sensible to do that; although he would suggest that preserving the past is part of the impulse to preserve the self (that justifies the contents of our loft then) too much nostalgia also has its dangers and he elaborates very thought-provokingly in his book The Heritage Industry: Britain in a Climate of Decline which is quite a revealing expose of the growth, manufacture and marketing of heritage.

    House-Bound 2007

  • I've been reading some wartime diaries at random recently and browsing another book Under Seige Literary Life in London 1939 - 45 by Robert Hewison.

    66 entries from January 2007 2007

  • I've been reading some wartime diaries at random recently and browsing another book Under Seige Literary Life in London 1939 - 45 by Robert Hewison.

    Sunday Confessions 2007

  • As the new world order emerges so does a new way of thinking and Penelope Fitzgerald in her excellent afterword sums it up as only she could and perhaps she was thinking along the same lines as Robert Hewison

    House-Bound 2007

  • Robert Hewison would argue that I'm sensible to do that; although he would suggest that preserving the past is part of the impulse to preserve the self (that justifies the contents of our loft then) too much nostalgia also has its dangers and he elaborates very thought-provokingly in his book The Heritage Industry: Britain in a Climate of Decline which is quite a revealing expose of the growth, manufacture and marketing of heritage.

    House-Bound 2007

  • Robert Hewison would argue that I'm sensible to do that; although he would suggest that preserving the past is part of the impulse to preserve the self (that justifies the contents of our loft then) too much nostalgia also has its dangers and he elaborates very thought-provokingly in his book The Heritage Industry: Britain in a Climate of Decline which is quite a revealing expose of the growth, manufacture and marketing of heritage.

    54 entries from April 2007 2007

  • I've been reading some wartime diaries at random recently and browsing another book Under Seige Literary Life in London 1939 - 45 by Robert Hewison.

    Sunday Confessions 2007

  • As the new world order emerges so does a new way of thinking and Penelope Fitzgerald in her excellent afterword sums it up as only she could and perhaps she was thinking along the same lines as Robert Hewison

    54 entries from April 2007 2007

  • As the new world order emerges so does a new way of thinking and Penelope Fitzgerald in her excellent afterword sums it up as only she could and perhaps she was thinking along the same lines as Robert Hewison

    House-Bound 2007

  • Adam Hewison, president of MarketClub.com, said his technical models indicated gold could remain in a trading range as it builds up energy for its next upward move.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Frank Tang 2011

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