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Definition of Theresa

1. Noun. Indian nun and missionary in the Roman Catholic Church (born of Albanian parents in what is now Macedonia); dedicated to helping the poor in India (1910-1997).

Definition of Theresa

1. Proper noun. (Ancient Greek female given name) , an alteration of Teresa, first used in Spain, supposedly derived from the (etyl grc) name of the island of Thera in Greece. ¹

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Literary usage of Theresa

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

1. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1904)
"Maria Theresa alone was overjoyed. She thus expresses herself: " I have no liking for Frederick, but I must do him the justice to say that he has acted ..."

2. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1907)
"Maria Theresa alone was overjoyed. She thus expresses herself: "I have no liking for Frederick, but I must do him the justice to say that he has acted nobly ..."

3. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1909)
"Indeed, at first it almost seemed that Maria Theresa was to have an unexpectedly easy accession. England and the United Provinces, Pope Benedict XIV and the ..."

4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1846)
"Forget me, Theresa ; but be assured that you will never be forgotten by ... Theresa put the poison into the soup, »ft» she had served her lover with his own ..."

5. Bentley's Miscellany by Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith (1865)
"In the preface to her Memoirs she states that nothing ever pained her so much as Florentine's declaration: " Theresa is the ..."

6. Poet Lore (1907)
"Theresa.— I must put his desk in order; and those books on the chair ... Theresa.— You are only his secretary, yet you are wearing your evening suit ? ..."

7. The Kingdom of Evils: Psychiatric Social Work Presented in One Hundred Case by Elmer Ernest Southard, Mary Cromwell Jarrett (1922)
"An interest was taken in Theresa Beauvais by a lady who had lived in the town ... Theresa herself had already entered upon this life and was in the poor ..."

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