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Definition of Saint Bride
1. Noun. Irish abbess; a patron saint of Ireland (453-523).
Generic synonyms: Abbess, Mother Superior, Prioress, Saint
Lexicographical Neighbors of Saint Bride
Literary usage of Saint Bride
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Twenty by Stella Benson (1918)
"Saint Bride ABOUT your brow a starry wreath, About your feet a wilderness, Where
young hot hopes grow cold beneath The tangled bondage of the press. ..."
2. Origines Parochiales Scotiae: The Antiquities Ecclesiastical and Territorial by William Anderson, Joseph Robertson, James Brodie Brichan, John McNab (1854)
"... of Saint Bride in Bute, who was also vicar of the parish.1 In 1445 there was
remitted to the same Sir Nigel, chaplain of the chapel of Saint Bride near ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the English Courts of Common Law by Great Britain Bail Court (1870)
"... more than five years with her daughter in the parish of Saint Bride in the
... of Saint Bride and the relieving officer of the said West London Union, ..."
4. The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott (1895)
"A blithesome rout that morning-tide Had sought the chapel of Saint Bride. ...
461. chapel of Saint Bride. Half a mile from the southern end of Lubnaig, ..."
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