Meanings
verb
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of surname
adjectivesurnamed (not comparable)
- not comparableBearing a surname.
It may have been that this strange yearning of Pierre for a sister, had part of its origin in that still stranger feeling of loneliness he sometimes experienced, as not only the solitary head of his family, but the only surnamed male Glendinning extant.
1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities
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