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Proserpina

/ prəʊˈsɜːpɪnə /

noun

  1. the Roman goddess of the underworld Greek counterpartPersephone
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

Neptune also loved the goddess Ceres, and followed her during the long time that she spent in search of her daughter Proserpina.

She sat for a long time on a stone by the roadside, mourning her lost Proserpina, until a little girl came by, driving some goats.

The patient old earth smiled again on Proserpina's return, for then her mother gave the blighted vegetation a redoubled care.

Hecate, the goddess of the lower world, sometimes identified with Proserpina, and sometimes with Diana.

Moreover, as we have already seen, even Chaucer called the fairy-king Pluto and the queen Proserpina.

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