Alethea

[al-uh-thee-uh]

noun

a female given name: from a Greek word meaning “truth.”

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Historical Examples of alethea

For this was his mission, to find the Alethea before she sailed.
The Black Bag
Louis Joseph Vance
The Alethea was within the wide jaws of the Western Scheldt.
The Black Bag
Louis Joseph Vance
It was this which decided Alethea that the boy was worth taking pains with.
The Way of All Flesh
Samuel Butler
In the first he recognised his brother Jasper, and in the lady, the fair Alethea.
John Deane of Nottingham
W.H.G. Kingston
Alethea was more serious, naturally, than he had ever seen her before.
John Deane of Nottingham
W.H.G. Kingston

Word Origin and History for alethea

Alethea

fem. proper name, from Greek aletheia "truth, truthfulness," from alethes "true," literally "not concealing," from privative prefix a- "not" (see a- (3)) + lethe "forgetfulness, oblivion" (see latent).