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Definition of Saint Vincent

1. Noun. An island in the center of the Windward Islands; the largest of the islands comprising Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Saint Vincent

Literary usage of Saint Vincent

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Here, in 1847, the Academy of Mount Saint Vincent had its foundation. In 1849 the affiliation of the Emmitsburg Sisters with the community in France took ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"On the eastern side of the Gulf of Saint Vincent lie the most populous portions ... Among the mountains east of Gulf of Saint Vincent, primitive limestone, ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"... the ancient abbey of Saint Vincent and the church of Saint Martin, built in the 12th century. Laon was the seat of a bishopric until the Revolution. ..."

4. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"The taking of Saint Vincent and Puerto Bello, by Captaine William Parker of ... In our passing by the Cape of Saint Vincent in Spaine, commonly called the ..."

5. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"The taking of Saint Vincent and Puerto Bello, by Captaine William Parker of ... In our passing by the Cape of Saint Vincent in Spaine, commonly called the ..."

6. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge edited by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"SAINT THOMAS, Christians of. Sec CHRISTIANS OF ST. THOMAS. Saint Vincent, an island of the British West Indies, in the Windward group, ..."

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