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dorothea
/ˌdɔɹəˈθiə/
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What does dorothea mean?
proper noun
- A female given name from Ancient Greek, a Latinate variant of Dorothy.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˌdɔɹəˈθiə/
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Among them were Daniel Muller and his two daughters, Dorothea and Salome, whose mother had died on the passage.
To Dorothea this was adorable genuineness, and religious abstinence from that artificiality which uses up the soul in the efforts of pretence.
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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.
He wedded my sister, Dorothea, And used her cruelly bad.
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.