Definitions

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  • proper noun A patronymic surname.

Etymologies

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From a diminutive form of Will +‎ -son.

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Examples

  • One night after we had come back we were meeting in Willison's house and we discussed from beginning to end the nature of our troubles in South Africa.

    Britain's Part in International Affairs 1929

  • Now I make no bones about it, the men who met in Willison's house that night were men who believed that their first duty in life was to keep the British Empire together.

    Britain's Part in International Affairs 1929

  • Correction: Joe Willison is from South Carolina, not Virginia.

    Obama accepts apology 2009

  • Obama did the right thing by forgiving Rep. Willison ...

    Obama accepts apology 2009

  • Facebook will decline to comment, Simon Willison will write a thoughtful and persuasive essay about the benefits to Facebook if they were to embrace such a thing, and Andy Baio will politely link to it on Waxy Links.

    Exclusive: The Future of Facebook Usernames - Anil Dash 2009

  • Grace Willison had protested quietly through the first smart of her tears:

    She Closed Her Eyes 2010

  • Grace Willison again spoke her gentle but firm correction:

    She Closed Her Eyes 2010

  • Grace Willison was obviously relieved to see him go but she smiled bravely at Dalgliesh.

    She Closed Her Eyes 2010

  • Following the summit, Chris Messina, Simon Willison, and others pointed to Pownce as an example of “the right way” to use [...]

    OAuth for the iPhone: Pownce.app | FactoryCity 2008

  • In 2004 Simon Willison showed me the output of a widget he built in ad-hoc collab with Tim Bray wherein individual sections or paragraphs of posts are automatically assigned anchors, the point being to make these components easily linkable.

    Embedded Journalism - Anil Dash 2008

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