Kenyon

American  

[ken-yuhn] / ˈkɛn yən /

noun

1. John Samuel, 1874–1959, U.S. phonetician and educator.

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Example Sentences

But even more, it is Kenyon and Hilda’s fundamentally American goodness that gives them the strength to bear Miriam’s burden.

From The Wall Street Journal

And two Americans: Kenyon, a wry, observant, skeptical humanist sculptor, perhaps a stand-in for Hawthorne himself; and Hilda, a New England Puritan painter—self-possessed, pious, unswervingly loyal, pure as a flight of doves.

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Guilty and despondent, Donatello retreats to his empty family estate in Tuscany, where Kenyon tries to counsel him.

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Thus unburdened, she transforms into a Beatrice figure and, together with Kenyon, leads the crime to its resolution.

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Indeed, the story of Miriam, Hilda, Kenyon and Donatello can be read as the story of America in miniature.

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