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Septimus

American  
[sep-tuh-muhs] / ˈsɛp tə məs /

noun

  1. a male given name.


Example Sentences

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The landowners sold the site in 1926 to Septimus Wray, a pleasure garden entrepreneur who began opening the caverns to visitors.

From BBC • Dec. 25, 2024

Some coronavirus symptoms may also last longer than others, said Joshua Septimus, a medical director in the Houston Methodist health-care system.

From Washington Post • Jan. 6, 2022

Stoppard, like Thomasina, is inclined to grieve the loss, yet he gives Septimus a typically convincing rebuttal, one of the most moving speeches in all his work:

From Slate • Feb. 23, 2021

Yet ever since Woolf decided that Septimus Warren Smith had to die in order that Clarissa could live, Madame Bovary has seemed the kind of cautionary tale feminists felt the need to write against.

From The Guardian • Sep. 30, 2016

Now, by temperament, Septimus was one of nature's poisoners.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman