Augustine

1. A male given name from Latin, notably borne by Saint Augustine of Hippo (354–430), a church father and a writer.

   The ordo amoris can be conceptualized as a series of concentric circles radiating outward from ourselves, beginning with loving God, who is, as Augustine put it, “closer to us than we are to ourselves,” and ending with loving the rest of the world outside our own country.

   2025 February 11, Richard Clements, “First, Love Locally: JD Vance and ‘Ordo Amoris’”, in Word on Fire, archived from the original on 15 Feb 2025

plural Augustines

1. An Augustinian.

1. A female given name from French.

   Miss Augustine Bishop, 60 years old, of 302 East Fifty-fifth Street, suffocated yesterday morning by smoke which filled her bedroom on the second floor.

   1920 December 26, “Aged Spinster Suffocated: Firemen Find Miss Augustine Bishop Dead After Fire in Her Home”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC

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   Miss Augustine Pardee Shaw, daughter of Mrs. Robert Toland of this place and Quincy Adams Shaw Jr. of Boston, was married to Francis Whiting Hatch Jr. of Minneapolis, son of Mr. and Mrs. Hatch of Wayland, Mass., today in St. Thomas’ Episcopal Church by the Rev. Nathanael B. Groton.

   1947 February 2, “Miss A. P. Shaw Bride of Francis Hatch Jr.”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 55

   Mrs. Robert Manville of Birmingham, Ala., was matron of honor and the other attendants were Miss Anne Jones of Randallstown, Md., Miss Diane Mellish of Williamsport, Miss Augustine Janeway of Villanova, Mrs. Horace Hill of Drexel Brook and Mrs. Ronald Tocantins of Chestnut Hill.

   1951 September 20, “Miss M. Sheridan Bryn Mawr Bride […]”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC