Lucretia
Americannoun
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Roman Legend. Also Lucrece a Roman woman whose suicide led to the expulsion of the Tarquins and the establishment of the Roman republic.
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a female given name.
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Example Sentences
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Few, if any, poems exist hailing the fortitude of Roman women like Lucretia and her equivalent in “House of Ashur,” Claudia Black’s Cossutia.
From Salon • Dec. 20, 2025
Their parents, Henry and Lucretia Clark, scraped together money in 1995 to buy the building and the siblings didn’t want to let go of it.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2024
Common Pleas Judge Lucretia Clemons agreed the jury note was “inflammatory,” according to The Philadelphia Inquirer.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 31, 2024
At the convention, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott presented the Declaration of Sentiments, a list of demands and resolutions to be put forward for signatures, demands like the right to vote.
From Scientific American • Nov. 9, 2023
Lucretia encouraged her children to keep up their summer activities—seeing friends, going to the park, riding horses, and taking swimming lessons.
From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow
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