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Abélard
[ab-uh-lahrd,
noun
Pierre Peter Abelard, 1079–1142, French scholastic philosopher, teacher, and theologian. His love affair with Heloïse is one of the famous romances in history.
Abelard
/ ˈæbəˌlɑːd /
noun
Peter. French name Pierre Abélard. 1079–1142, French scholastic philosopher and theologian whose works include Historia Calamitatum and Sic et Non (1121). His love for Héloïse is recorded in their correspondence
Example Sentences
“You are talking to Abelard Hassam di Chirico Flint—for short, Abel.”
“They’re all wondering where I am, of course. Many I don’t even know are wondering. It’s certainly gotten around that Abelard Hassam di Chirico Flint, of the Mossville Flints, is missing.”
“The higher the profile of the criminal, the more Heloises to the Abelard.”
Of history’s three most famous love affairs — Abelard and Heloise, Romeo and Juliet, Joe Biden and Amtrak — only the third teaches a civics lesson.
The Morgan family keep up the pressure on the Met, and a new investigation - Operation Abelard - begins in the summer of 2001.
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