Edmund

/ ˈɛdmənd /

noun

1. Edmund, Saint11751240MEnglishRELIGION: clergymanRELIGION: saint Saint, also called Saint Edmund Rich. 1175–1240, English churchman: archbishop of Canterbury (1234–40). Feast day: Nov 16.

Example Sentences

Chair of the judges, Edmund de Waal, described Orbital as a "book about a wounded world".

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“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing,” John F. Kennedy warned as he misquoted Edmund Burke.

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We put that point to the AA's president Edmund King - why call for more restrictions for younger motorists, but not elderly drivers too?

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More ambitious Anglo-Irish reformers, including the Elizabethan poet Edmund Spenser, believed that “Irish nationality had to be uprooted by the sword,” in the words of historian Roy Foster, but later generations of British officials were less enthusiastic about overt genocide.

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Many have wondered if his team succeeded in becoming the first people to summit Everest, 29 years before Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the top.

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