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jeremy

/ˈd͡ʒɛɹ.mi/

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What does jeremy mean?

proper noun

  1. A male given name from Hebrew, English form of Jeremiah. Also used to anglicize Irish Diarmaid (Dermot).
  2. A locality in the Oberon council area, eastern New South Wales, Australia.

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/ˈd͡ʒɛɹ.mi/

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/ˈd͡ʒɜɹ.mi/
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But a still more important use of active employment is that referred to by the great divine, Jeremy Taylor.
Samuel SmilesSelf Help; with Illustrations of Conduct and PerseveranceProject Gutenberg ebook #935
“Ask for Pompey from Jeremy Dixon, Trinity College.”
Arthur Conan DoyleThe Return of Sherlock HolmesProject Gutenberg ebook #108
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He was brother of the celebrated Jeremy Bentham, and he applied the same clear common-sense to mechanical subjects which the other had done to legal, social, and political questions.
James NasmythJames Nasmyth, Engineer: An AutobiographyProject Gutenberg ebook #476
His child--"that pretty person" in Jeremy Taylor's letter of condolence--was chiefly precious to him inasmuch as he was, too soon, a likeness of the man he never lived to be.
Alice MeynellThe ChildrenProject Gutenberg ebook #2012
The most eminent ethical thinkers, men such as Jeremy Bentham and Immanuel Kant, who discussed ethical questions from very opposite standpoints, agreed in regarding all men as equal in respect of ethical endowment.
A. C. (Albert Charles) SewardDarwin and Modern ScienceProject Gutenberg ebook #1909