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Definition of Jerome

1. Noun. (Roman Catholic Church) one of the great Fathers of the early Christian Church whose major work was his translation of the Scriptures from Hebrew and Greek into Latin (which became the Vulgate); a saint and Doctor of the Church (347-420).

Definition of Jerome

1. Proper noun. (Ancient Greek male given name). ¹

2. Proper noun. (surname patronymic from=given names) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

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Literary usage of Jerome

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

1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1861)
"Memoirs and Correspondence of King jerome and Queen Catherine—[Mémoires et ... Paris, RECENT French trials have given to the early days of King jerome the ..."

2. 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)
"There were two other congregations at Rome under the patronage of the same Doctor of the Church: the Hermits of St. jerome [of the Congregation] of Blessed ..."

3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"Yet in spite of the defects and weaknesses already mentioned, jerome has retained a rank among the western Fathers. This would be his due, if for nothing ..."

4. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1922)
"Geology and Ore Deposits of jerome District Br Louis E. ... (Lake Superior Meeting, August, 1920) THE town of jerome is located in Yavapai County in north ..."

5. The History of Christianity: From the Birth of Christ to the Abolition of by Henry Hart Milman (1840)
"jerome. THE MONASTIC SYSTEM. THOUGH not so directly or magisterially dominant jerome, over the Christianity of the West, the influence of jerome has been of ..."

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