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Hibernia

/ hɪˈbɜːnɪə; haɪˈbɜːnɪə /

noun

  1. the Roman name for Ireland


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Usage

This name is now used poetically

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Example Sentences

They fill up the regiments, which are destined for the expedition, with soldiers from the regiment of Hibernia.

The only other entry, until the Tudor period, is fames magna in Hibernia in 1410.

With these facts the Professor scrambled from the larboard paddle-box of the Hibernia.

Pestilentia magna in Hibernia, adeo quod propter immensitatem mortalitatis vocabatur ab antiquis tertia, p. 24.

By an error of the consistorial copyist, that see is styled Sodorensis in Hibernia.

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