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johannes
/dʒoʊˈhænəs/
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What does johannes mean?
noun
- An old Portuguese gold coin bearing a figure of John V of Portugal, in circulation 1722–1835.
proper noun
- A male given name from Late Latin Iōhannēs [in turn from Koine Greek Ἰωάννης (Iōánnēs), in turn from Biblical Hebrew יוֹחָנָן (Yôḥānān, “God is gracious”)], variant of John and Jon.
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noun
- (historical) A former Portuguese gold coin.
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IPA pronunciation
/dʒoʊˈhænəs/
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On Anna Renata there is a striking essay by the late Johannes Scherr, in his Hammerschlage und Historien.
The thirteenth century produced Thomas Aquinas, and Johannes Duns Scotus, and William Occam, and Roger Bacon.
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Amongst books that are simply pleasant, of the moderns, Boccaccio’s Decameron, Rabelais, and the Basia of Johannes Secundus (if those may be ranged under the title) are worth reading for amusement.
Johannes Matthaeus relates the case of a buried woman, and that some time afterward a noise was heard in the tomb.
I can truly say that, though I have read much of the old monastic life, it has never been brought home to me so closely as by the messages and descriptions of dear old Brother Johannes, the earth-bound spirit--earthbound by his great love for the old abbey in which he had spent his human life.