ethel

alternative œthel

1. The rune ᛟ.
2. The name of the Latin script letter Œ/œ.

1. obsoleteNoble.

   […] that he was of a doughty and ethel stirp. His ayle and eam had both been bellipotent; […]

   1856, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East, page 33

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   The violation of an ethel born or noble woman was paid for by a higher murde than that of an un-ethel or common person. The murder of all persons was in like manner paid for by a were or were-geld, nicely adjusted to their relative rank.

   1861, Henry Brougham, The British Constitution: Its History, Structure, and Working, page 140

   "I have come to seek your counsel in your most ethel of ethical capacities. My problem is wholly mechanical."

   1921, The Judge, page 5

plural ethels

1. alternativeAlternative form of athel (“tamarisk”).

   For quotations using this term, see Citations:ethel.

alternative Ethyl

1. A female given name from Old English, popular at the turn of the 20th century.

   If it is so false, and base, and hollow, this great world […] why does Ethel Newcome cling to it? Will you be fairer, dear, with any other name than your own?

   1855, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Newcomes, Bradbury and Evans, page 95

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   Charmian Lyle had given herself her first name at the age of sixteen, upon encountering it in an English novel. Her baptismal name was Ethel. When her husband Walter was extremely angry with her, he called her Ethel. Charmian, she thought, suited her much better. She didn't think she looked, felt, or sounded like Ethel. Nor like her middle name, which she really detested, Edna.

   1979, Mary McMullen, But Nellie Was So Nice, Doubleday, page 23

   Two of Kennedy’s sons, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Douglas Kennedy, supported the release during Sirhan’s 16th appearance before the California Parole Board. But other family members, including RFK’s widow Ethel, felt Sirhan should remain imprisoned.

   2022 January 13, Jake Tapper and Cheri Mossburg, “California Gov. Gavin Newsom denies parole for RFK assassin Sirhan Sirhan”, in CNN, archived from the original on 14 Jan 2022

2. A number of places in the United States:
   1. An unincorporated community in Arkansas County, Arkansas.
   2. An unincorporated community in Greenfield Township, Orange County, Indiana.
   3. An unincorporated community in East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana.
   4. A town in Attala County, Mississippi.
   5. A town in Macon County, Missouri.
   6. An unincorporated community in Pushmataha County, Oklahoma.
   7. An unincorporated community in Richmond County, Virginia.
   8. An unincorporated community in Lewis County, Washington.
   9. An unincorporated community in Logan County, West Virginia.
3. A hamlet in Huron County, Ontario, Canada.