Wilfrid

British  

/ ˈwɪlfrɪd /

noun

1. Saint. 634–709 _ad , English churchman; bishop of York (?663–?703). At the Synod of Whitby (664) he argued successfully that Celtic practices should be replaced by Roman ones in the English Church. Feast day: Oct 12

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Example Sentences

Starring Harry H. Corbett and Wilfrid Brambell as struggling rag-and-bone men Harold and Albert Steptoe, the sitcom reached audiences of more than 28 million in it is heyday.

From BBC • Dec. 28, 2025

For writers in the 1960s, middle-class infidelity offered a keyhole to deeper social themes—“the relation of individual to collective decadence,” the critic Wilfrid Sheed wrote of Updike’s fiction.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

“Gen Z has been fueling this movement toward a lot of things,” said Melise Panetta, a marketing lecturer at Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada.

From Salon • Jan. 1, 2025

For the new research, biologist Jennifer Baltzer of Canada's Wilfrid Laurier University and her colleagues used these data to choose nine overwinter sites for a closer look at the soil and vegetation involved.

From Scientific American • Jul. 31, 2023

But Wilfrid Sheed, an American novelist and essayist, penned a comment just before the match ended that many would later regard as prescient.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady