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Definition of Heloise
1. Noun. Student and mistress and wife of Abelard (circa 1098-1164).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heloise
Literary usage of Heloise
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Innocents Abroad: Or the New Pilgrims' Progress by Mark Twain (2001)
"Yet who really knows the story of Abelard and Heloise? Precious few people.
The names are perfectly familiar to every body, and that is about all. ..."
2. Woman; Her Position, Influence, and Achievement Throughout the Civilized by William C. King (1902)
"To this education, very uncommon at that time, Heloise added great beauty, ...
Here he saw Heloise, and commenced an acquaintance with her by letter ; but, ..."
3. Woman's Record: Or, Sketches of All Distinguished Women, from "the Beginning by Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1853)
"To this education, тегу uncommon at that time, Heloise added great beauty, ...
Here he saw Heloise, and commenced an acquaintance with her by letter ; but, ..."
4. The Mediaeval Mind: A History of the Development of Thought and Emotion in by Henry Osborn Taylor (1919)
"Yet few of those who have been touched by her story have known that Heloise was
a great woman, possessed of an admirable mind, a character which proved its ..."
5. The New Calendar of Great Men: Biographies of the 558 Worthies of All Ages by Frederic Harrison (1892)
"Heloise was niece of a canon of Paris named Fulbert, and in youth received
instruction in the convent of Argenteuil. When Abelard, the philosopher, ..."
6. The Rise of Intellectual Liberty from Thales to Copernicus by Frederic May Holland (1885)
"Heloise, who had returned to his roof, persisted that she was not married, ...
His pupils would have assembled elsewhere ; Heloise and Astrolabe were ..."
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