Katherine

American  

[kath-er-in, kath-rin] / ˈkæθ ər ɪn, ˈkæθ rɪn /

Also Katharine,

noun

1. a female given name: from the Greek word meaning “pure.”

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Example Sentences

The first meeting between Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield did not go well.

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Rather, as Gerri Kimber explains in “Katherine Mansfield: A Hidden Life,” they would be known as literary sparring partners, both engaged in the high-stakes project of forging a new modernist literature.

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The critic Sylvia Lynd accused Murry of “boiling Katherine’s bones to make soup”; D.H.

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This discovery of Orage’s significance in Katherine Mansfield’s life and work matters to scholars, but Ms. Kimber misjudges how much it might engross readers of a biography.

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Katherine Mansfield could write wonderful lines such as: “The men walked like scissors; the women trod like cats.”

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