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dorothea

/ˌdɔɹəˈθiə/

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What does dorothea mean?

proper noun

  1. A female given name from Ancient Greek, a Latinate variant of Dorothy.

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/ˌdɔɹəˈθiə/

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Among them were Daniel Muller and his two daughters, Dorothea and Salome, whose mother had died on the passage.
William Craft; Ellen CraftRunning a Thousand Miles for Freedom Or, The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from SlaveryProject Gutenberg ebook #585
To Dorothea this was adorable genuineness, and religious abstinence from that artificiality which uses up the soul in the efforts of pretence.
George EliotMiddlemarchProject Gutenberg ebook #145
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For indeed he doubted not that the said woman was the damsel of Bourton Abbas, whose image had named herself Dorothea to him in that dream.
William MorrisThe Well at the World's End: A TaleProject Gutenberg ebook #169
He wedded my sister, Dorothea, And used her cruelly bad.
Adam Lindsay GordonPoems by Adam Lindsay GordonProject Gutenberg ebook #258
Franciscus Picus Mirandulae, quoted by Pare, says that one Dorothea, an Italian, bore 20 children at 2 confinements, the first time bearing 9 and the second time eleven.
George M. (George Milbrey) Gould; Walter L. (Walter Lytle) PyleAnomalies and Curiosities of MedicineProject Gutenberg ebook #747