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Greville

[grev-il]
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noun
  1. Fulke [foo lk] /fʊlk/, 1st Baron Brooke,1554–1628, English poet and statesman.
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Historical Examples

  • At the settlement of Greville, about a hundred miles to the north.

    The Hunters of the Ozark

    Edward S. Ellis

  • I have not the same dread of dullness which affected Mr. Greville.

  • This seems to contradict the proposition in the article on Greville in the Eng.

  • It was indeed only owing to Mr. Greville's influence that they had been able to do so.

  • "I shouldn't go, my boy, if I were you," put in Mr. Greville quietly.

British Dictionary definitions for greville

Greville

noun
  1. Fulke (fʊlk), 1st Baron Brooke. 1554–1628, English poet, writer, politician, and diplomat: Chancellor of the Exchequer (1614–22); author of The Life of the Renowned Sir Philip Sidney (1652)
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