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Amasa

American  
[uh-mey-suh, am-uh-suh] / əˈmeɪ sə, ˈæm ə sə /

noun

  1. (in the Bible) the commander of Absalom's army and later of David's army.


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Built for mine owner Amasa Campbell and his family, visitors can see the game room where Campbell entertained Spokane’s big wigs plus his wife Grace’s gorgeous all-pink reception room.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 1, 2024

After Amasa and Frances married, they settled in the county seat, Monroeville, where A.C., as he was known, had accepted a position managing a railroad line for a local law firm.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 10, 2018

Mills said that while researching the book, she talked to people who remembered the sisters’ father, Amasa Coleman Lee, a lawyer, playing golf in a three-piece suit.

From New York Times • Feb. 24, 2016

It was widely understood that Ms. Lee modeled Atticus on her father, Amasa Coleman “A.C.”

From Washington Post • Feb. 19, 2016

Lizette was very proud of Viola, and so, indeed, was Amasa, who was fourteen now, but whose name was not on the programme at all.

From Harper's Round Table, October 15, 1895 by Various

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