Dimity
See also: dimity
English
Proper noun
Dimity
- A female given name of modern usage.
- 1990, Miss Read (Dora Jessie Saint), Friends at Thrush Green, 2002, page 98,
- 'Raffle books,' she announced.
- 'What for?' enquired Dimity, feeling for her purse and about to do a vicar's wife's familiar duty.
- 1990, Miss Read (Dora Jessie Saint), Friends at Thrush Green, 2002, page 98,
- A surname.
- 1843, N. P. Willis, Meena Dimity: Or Why Mr. Brown Crash Took His Tour, George R. Graham, Rufus W. Griswold (editors), Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature and Art, Volumes 22-23, page 134,
- The Diaper family lived in Sassafras street—the Dimity family in Pepperidge street; and the fathers of the Diaper girls and the Dimity girls were worth about the same money, and had both made it in the lumber line.
- 1843, N. P. Willis, Meena Dimity: Or Why Mr. Brown Crash Took His Tour, George R. Graham, Rufus W. Griswold (editors), Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature and Art, Volumes 22-23, page 134,