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adele
/əˈdɛl/
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What does adele mean?
noun
- An infinite sequence consisting of a real number and a p-adic number for every prime number p, such that all but finitely many of them are p-adic integers. More generally, a member of a self-dual topological ring built on any algebraic number field, and involving in a symmetric way all the completions of the field.
proper noun
- A female given name from the Germanic languages.
- A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and neighboring Togo.
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IPA pronunciation
/əˈdɛl/
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When he attempts to shoot himself he always misses, but when Adele d'Hervey resists him, at the time he has taken the name of Antony, he kills her.
Adele died six hours afterward, and Marie died of peritonitis on the next day.
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But, certainly William did now aspire to it; and knowing that Harold would be a powerful rival, he called together a great assembly of his nobles, offered Harold his daughter Adele in marriage, informed him that he meant on King Edward’s death to claim the English crown as his own inheritance, and required Harold then and there to swear to aid him.