Cordelia

[ kawr-deel-yuh ]

noun

(in Shakespeare's King Lear) the youngest of Lear's three daughters and the only one who remains loyal to her father.: Compare Goneril, Regan.
a female given name.

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How to use Cordelia in a sentence

While her siblings gush out their praise in a manner that would make Kim Jong-un blush, Cordelia gets all choked up.
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Fortunately for the reader, Cordelia is even more headstrong than she is self-obsessed.
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Loyal to her father and bound to the sea, Cordelia wants nothing more than to be acknowledged as truly worth of the Kings name.
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As Cordelia learns, the myths that define us are finally meant to be defied, too.
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For her part, Cordelia ruminates endlessly about the family legacy and her place in it.
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By way of episodes the characteristic themes of Regan and Goneril, and then—a second subject—Cordelia, calm and tender.
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Five minutes later he chanced to find Cordelia without a partner.
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"I think I never had such a good time in all my life," breathed Cordelia.
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"I should say we did," shuddered Cordelia, still with her head turned backward.
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Cordelia, only, cast an apprehensive glance over her shoulder.
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Cultural definitions for Cordelia

Cordelia

The youngest of the king's three daughters in the play King Lear, by William Shakespeare. King Lear at first thinks her ungrateful to him because she refuses to flatter him as her sisters do; he soon finds out that she is the only one of the three who genuinely cares for him.

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