Meanings
- obsoleteObsolete form of Kenilworth.
They kept to their appointment ſo well, that they got to Kenelworth in good time, and had even two or three hours on their hands to ſpend, in taking an exact view of the place.
1759, [Richard Hurd], editor, Moral and Political Dialogues: Being the Substance of Several Conversations Between Divers Eminent Persons of the Past and Present Age; […], London: […] A. Millar, […]; and W. Thurlborne and J. Woodyer at Cambridge, page 952 more examples
More North-eaſt, where wild brookes meeting together make a broad poole among the parkes, and ſo ſoone as they are kept in with bankes runne in a chanell, is ſeated Kenelworth, in times paſt commonly called Kenelworde, but corruptly Killingworth: […]
1610, William Camden, translated by Philémon Holland, Britain, or A Chorographicall Description of the Most Flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland, […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press for] Georgii Bishop & Ioannis Norton, →OCLC, page 566It is not the object of this work to give a description of Derbyshire, nor of any of the remarkable places through which their route thither lay; Oxford, Blenheim, Warwick, Kenelworth, Birmingham, &c. are sufficiently known.
1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter XIX, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume II, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 236
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