Meanings
proper noun
- alternativeAlternative spelling of Daphne.
Nay, lady, sit. If I but wave this wand, Your nerves are all chain’d up in alabaster, And you a statue, or, as Daphnë was, Root-bound, that fled Apollo.
Comus
1634 October 9 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC, lines 678–681
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APA
Daphnë. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Daphn%C3%AB
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“Daphnë.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Daphn%C3%AB. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Daphnë,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Daphn%C3%AB.
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