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jeremy
/ˈd͡ʒɛɹ.mi/
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What does jeremy mean?
proper noun
- A male given name from Hebrew, English form of Jeremiah. Also used to anglicize Irish Diarmaid (Dermot).
- A locality in the Oberon council area, eastern New South Wales, Australia.
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But a still more important use of active employment is that referred to by the great divine, Jeremy Taylor.
“Ask for Pompey from Jeremy Dixon, Trinity College.”
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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.
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.
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.