Parthenia

[ pahr-thee-nee-uh ]

noun

, Classical Mythology.

1. an epithet of Athena, meaning “virgin.”

Example Sentences

And in due time Cattleya intermedia Parthenia appeared, to astonish and delight the universe.

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Then Parthenia dresses herself as a knight, and fights her husband's conqueror.

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The original text inconsistently uses a breve over the e in "Parthenia" and "Passameso."

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Thinking of the wearied Parthenia, I began to consider for the first time that perhaps she had better married the old Greek.

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There is not enough human reality about Parthenia to allow her representative to interest very deeply the sympathy of her hearers.

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