Definitions
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- proper n. A female given name.
- proper n. Alternative capitalization of sibyl
Etymologies
Examples
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The derivation and meaning of the name Sibyl are still subjects of controversy among antiquarians.
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A woman whom they called Sibyl, gifted with divine inspiration, came to Rome bringing [Sidenote: FRAG.
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They were supposedly made by a PROPHETESS called Sibyl, and eventually gathered together in Rome where they were consulted in times of crisis, until their destruction in 405.
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It may be that the so-called Sibyl had caught something of the same hope which led the Magi of the East to the cradle of the infant Messiah, but in any case the eclogue voiced a vague expectation which prevailed throughout the Roman Empire.
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I call you my Sibyl, dearest, because the Sibyl was a prophetess of divine things out of the Church; and so are you.
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Standing as the heirs of all the ages on this elevated vantage-ground and looking back upon the long course of the centuries -- upon the eventful future of the Sibyl, which is the past to us -- it seems a matter of course that the world should have spun down the ringing grooves of change as it has done; and we fancy that this must have been obvious to the world's gray fathers.
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Humph! I'm afraid the Sibyl is the only person capable of interpreting these.
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The family name is unknown of this great seeress and prophetess, called the Sibyl of the Rhine.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
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We have an aristocracy of language, whose phrases, like the West-End men of "Sibyl," are effeminate, extravagant, conventional, and prematurely worn-out.
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Her form, small and wonderfully graceful, was outlined against the back of the chair like the "Sibyl" of Velasquez.
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