Jones is a common patronymic based on John. From LearnThat.org.
And the listings are organized alphabetically by first name (since the patronymic is not really a “name.”). From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Iceland Bans Strip Clubs] Reference
Bjork’s Icelandic patronymic is correctly spelled Guðmundsdóttir. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » The Bjork Fund] Reference
Gospels as Bartholomew, which is a patronymic, meaning son of Tolmai. From Wordnik.com. [The New Testament Commentary Vol. III: John] Reference
Greek, "and that consequently I have a right to our patronymic, which is. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4] Reference
My patronymic establishes my fashionable position. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861] Reference
He stressed the patronymic with ceremony and pride. From Wordnik.com. [The Leper of Saint Giles]
That patronymic thus will be preserved for immortality. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, January 22, 1919] Reference
Africanus being at the same time added to his patronymic. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic] Reference
He was taken with a sudden shame of his homely patronymic. From Wordnik.com. [The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll] Reference
More recently came the phenomenon of patronymic subdivision. From Wordnik.com. [Have We Got A Bridge For You!] Reference
He noticed how the use of her name and patronymic pleased her. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
It's a somewhat abridged version of our patronymic, which was Rakovski. From Wordnik.com. [Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution] Reference
Trajan's Dacian colonists, long proved their right to the proud patronymic. From Wordnik.com. [Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.] Reference
Each king is given a patronymic derived from the name of his predecessor, e.g. From Wordnik.com. [Kings of Lindsey] Reference
"Al-f-u-r-d" that it was years after he realized his given patronymic was Alfred. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
Beli is given as the patronymic of Iago ap Beli in the Triads and Annales Cambriae. From Wordnik.com. [Chronology of the Kings of Gwynedd in the seventh century] Reference
Hence their original patronymic is MacAlpine, and they are usually termed the Clan Alpine. From Wordnik.com. [Rob Roy] Reference
'Kindly address me by my name and patronymic!' retorted Bormenthal, his expression clouding. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart Of A Dog]
Khrushchev should have addressed him asComrade General, not by his first name and patronymic. From Wordnik.com. [Counting Up, Counting Down]
Prior to this law, Turks had mainly used patronymic names, like most other Middle Easterners. From Wordnik.com. [1933] Reference
In many cases indeed there is good reason for doubting whether the name is a patronymic at all. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
I had always felt aversion to my uncourtly patronymic, and its very common, if not plebeian praenomen. From Wordnik.com. [Selections from Poe] Reference
Lane, which felt its sole chance for respectability slip away when the court came to disown its patronymic. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference
Descent henceforth was reckoned in the paternal line, and society had become patronymic instead of metronymic. From Wordnik.com. [Society Its Origin and Development] Reference
Watts, he had a fair title to the patronymic, denied that he had any claim to the gothic appellation of Alaric. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference
Her real name is Aimata, but she assumed, on ascending the throne, the royal patronymic by which she is best known. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
I never knew the real patronymic of this fellow, who was a Spaniard, and passed among us by the nickname of Gallego. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
Paolo Giovio states that Vanotti was her patronymic, and although there was a clan of that name in Rome, he is wrong. From Wordnik.com. [Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day] Reference
Little did Andrea imagine that he was destined to be the means of lifting his patronymic of Guarneri to such a giddy height!. From Wordnik.com. [The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators] Reference
Juliana Berners to Peter Beckford, and that more recent Peter whose patronymic was Hawker; while, on our side of the Atlantic, the late. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859] Reference
“I am delighted,” he began, “and grateful for your kind intention to visit us; I hope — please tell me your name and patronymic.”. From Wordnik.com. [Fathers and Sons] Reference
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