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Definition of Namings
1. naming [n] - See also: naming
Lexicographical Neighbors of Namings
Literary usage of Namings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Philosophy and Theology: Being the First Edinburgh University Gifford Lectures by James Hutchison Stirling (1890)
"That, too, is a way of the Orientals, that they would seek by mere numberless
namings to ascend to the infinite that is God; but, again, the Orientals ..."
2. Alaska, the Great Country by Ella Higginson (1908)
"However, many of his namings have died a natural death. The name Yukon is said
to have first been applied to the river in 1846 by Mr. J. Bell, of the Hudson ..."
3. Past and Present: And Heroes and Hero-worship by Thomas Carlyle (1893)
"Most rituals or 'namings' he will fall in with at present, are like to
be 'namings'—which shall be nameless ! In silence, in the Eternal Temple, ..."
4. Studies in Ancient History: The Second Series; Comprising an Inquiry Into by John Ferguson McLennan (1896)
"namings," which were always followed by feasting, were held at intervals : of
course, bringing all of the clan together, they made them acquainted with one ..."
5. Studies in Ancient History: The Second Series; Comprising an Inquiry Into by John Ferguson McLennan (1896)
"namings," which were always followed by feasting, were held at intervals : of
course, bringing all of the clan together, they made them acquainted with one ..."
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