BRITOMART

Date "BRITOMART" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

Specialty Definition: BRITOMART

Domain	Definition
Literature	Britomart [sweet maid ] (see below). Daughter of King Ryence of Wales, whose desire was to be a heroine. She is the impersonation of saintly chastity and purity of mind. She encounters the "savage, fierce bandit and mountaineer" without injury; is assailed by "hag and unlaid ghost, goblin, and swart fairy of the mine," but "dashes their brute violence into sudden adoration and blank awe." Britomart is not the impersonation of celibacy, as she is in love with an unknown hero, but of "virgin purity." (Spenser: Faërie Queene, book iii. Her marriage, book v. 6.) "She charmed at once and tamed the heart, Incomparable Britomart." Scott. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Crosswords: BRITOMART

Specialty definitions using "BRITOMART": Artegal, Arthegal ♦ Busirane ♦ Radegund. (references)

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Usage Frequency: BRITOMART

"BRITOMART" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "BRITOMART" is used about 6 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)	83.33%	5	157,705
Noun (singular)	16.67%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	6	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BRITOMART

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
britomart	3
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Anagrams: BRITOMART

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-i-m-o-r-r-t-t"
	-2 letters: traitor, tritoma.
	-3 letters: barrio, mortar.
	-4 letters: abort, ambit, amort, arbor, armor, biota, boart, briar, britt, mbira, moira, orbit, ottar, ratio, tabor, tarot, trait.
	-5 letters: abri, airt, ambo, amir, atom, bait, barm, batt, bima, birr, bitt, boar, boat, bora, bort, bota, bott, brat, brim, brio, brit, iamb, iota, mair, mart, matt, mitt, moat, mora, mort.
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