AMORY

Date "AMORY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references)

Crosswords: AMORY

Specialty definitions using "AMORY": Buncle. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	El Amory El Sexo/Love & Sex (reference) Ernest Amory Codman: The End Result of a Life in Medicine (reference) (more book examples)
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	Louise Amory Morris, miniature self-portrait on ivory. Credit: Library of Congress.		Amory S. Carhart, "Ashland Farm", residence in Warrenton, Virginia. General view from left II. Credit: Library of Congress.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	St. Kitts and Nevis	In June 1996, the Nevis Island Administration under the concerned citizens movement of Premier Vance Amory announced its intention to do so. Secession requires approval by two-thirds of the assembly's five elected members and also by two-thirds of voters in a referendum. (references)
	St. Kitts and Nevis	After the Nevis Reformation Party blocked the bill of secession, the premier called for elections for February 24, 1997. Although the elections produced no change in the composition of the assembly, Premier Amory pledged to continue his efforts toward Nevis' independence. (references)
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"AMORY" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "AMORY" is used about 22 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	100%	22	74,468

The following table summarizes the usage of "AMORY" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Amory	Last name	170	53,114
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1. Amory, MS (city, FIPS 1260)
Location: 33.98788 N, 88.48290 W
Population (1990): 7093 (3019 housing units)
Area: 19.6 sq km (land), 1.3 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 38821
Country: USA

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Expression: AMORY

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "AMORY": Heathcoat-amory.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: AMORY

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
amory	186
amory mississippi	79
amory lovins	14
amory springfield	12
cleveland amory	7
advertiser amory	6
alvin ambrose amery amory amos andrew	5
amory high school	4
amory levins	4
amory poly	3
amory houghton	3
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Misspellings: AMORY

Misspellings
	"AMORY" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Afori, Ahorey, Almoro, Amoore, amoray, Amori, Amorin, Awori. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: AMORY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: mayor, moray.
	Words within the letters "a-m-o-r-y"
	-1 letter: army, mayo, mora, roam.
	-2 letters: arm, mar, may, moa, mor, oar, ora, ram, ray, rom, rya, yam, yar, yom.
	-3 letters: am, ar, ay, ma, mo, my, om, or, oy, ya, yo.
	Words containing the letters "a-m-o-r-y"
	+1 letter: armory, mayors, morays.
	+2 letters: acronym, almonry, amatory, anymore, armoury, dayroom, harmony, majorly, marrowy, masonry, mayoral, morally, morassy, mortary, oxymora, paronym.
	+3 letters: acrimony, acronyms, aeronomy, agrimony, agronomy, amorally, armyworm, boyarism, claymore, cometary, costmary, cramoisy, dayrooms, dormancy, formally, fumatory, kymogram, majority, matronly, mayoress, minatory, molarity, monandry, monarchy, monetary, morality, moratory, mordancy, mortally, mortuary, motorway, myograph, myriapod, nomarchy, normalcy, normally, overmany, paronyms, paroxysm, playroom, pyoderma, ramosely, ramosity, randomly, rosemary, royalism, stramony, sycamore, yeomanry, zymogram.
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