Boniface

American  

[bon-uh-feys, -fis, baw-nee-fas] / ˈbɒn əˌfeɪs, -fɪs, bɔ niˈfas /

noun

1. Saint Wynfrith, a.d. 680?–755?, English monk who became a missionary in Germany.

2. a jovial innkeeper in George Farquhar's The Beaux' Stratagem.

3. (lowercase) any landlord or innkeeper.

4. a male given name: from a Latin word meaning “doer of good.”

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Boniface British  

/ ˈbɒnɪˌfeɪs /

noun

1. Saint . original name Wynfrith . ?680–?755 _ad , Anglo-Saxon missionary: archbishop of Mainz (746–755). Feast day: June 5

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Example Sentences

Boniface Mwabukusi, the president of the Tanganyika Law Society, says many people are afraid to come out and share their stories for fear of victimisation.

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Boniface Mwangi, one of the activists who had visited Ms Njeri in custody, said she told them that police had ransacked her house and taken her phone, laptop and hard drives.

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Boniface Mwabukusi, the president of the Tanganyika Law Society, the body representing lawyers in mainland Tanzania, said on Wednesday that they had learnt that the two were being held by the immigration department.

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"It was a beautiful party," says prominent human rights activist Boniface Mwangi, who was there.

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"There is a plan to call back the contractors to clean those areas to specification, to standard," Boniface Dumpe, a director at the BMI, told the BBC.

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