prenomen
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To this influence our clay tablets bear witness by twice making emphatic reference to the days of the powerful “Manakhbiria”—the prenomen of King Thutmosis III.
From The Tell El Amarna Period by J. (Jane) Hutchison
The various Terraces, each with a prenomen more graceful than the other, are the same.
From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 by Various
These, by a curtailment or national corruption of their proper prenomen, would be ordinarily styled Sandy this, Jock that.
From Toronto of Old by Henry Scadding
The prenomen, or divine name of Rameses, means “The supreme solar god, abounding in truth, approved of Ra.”
From Cleopatra's Needle A History of the London Obelisk, with an Exposition of the Hieroglyphics by James King
Neither do I. It's perfectly horrid; and it is my standing grievance against my parents that they saddled upon their innocent babe so uncouth a prenomen.
From Crestlands A Centennial Story of Cane Ridge by Mary Addams Bayne
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