Maurice (Shelley)
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Etymology


Saint's name from Late Mauricius, derived from .

Quotations

  • 1951 Graham Greene, The End of the Affair, Viking Press, page 5:
    For some reason I am a man known by his surname; I might never have been christened for all the use my friends make of the rather affected Maurice my literary parents gave me.
 
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