Dorcas

American  

[dawr-kuhs] / ˈdɔr kəs /

noun

1. a Christian woman at Joppa who made clothing for people in need. Acts 9:36–41.

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Dorcas British  

/ ˈdɔːkəs /

noun

1. a charitable woman of Joppa (Acts 9:36–42)

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Dorcas

Dorcas Mapenzi fears the worst if Ebola comes to the Kingonze camp, where she lives alongside more than 25,000 other displaced people in the conflict-hit eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

From Barron's ● May 29, 2026

“There are good things that happen when the water table is raised,” said Dorcas Benard, an environmental and biosystems engineer.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 24, 2024

Dorcas Reilly, who was one of the first full-time members of Campbell’s home economics department, took the challenge in stride.

From Salon ● Nov. 12, 2023

The acting, from Major Curda’s sad boy Romeo to Dorcas Leung’s sweetheart Juliet to Mia Katigbak’s warm, blunt Nurse, is uniformly strong.

From New York Times ● May 15, 2023

And he knows it will continue to fade because it was already beginning to the afternoon he hunted Dorcas down.

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison

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