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Sir Thomas More

Definition: Sir Thomas More

Sir Thomas More

Noun

1. English statesman who opposed Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon and was imprisoned and beheaded; recalled for his concept of Utopia, the ideal state.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Sir Thomas More

Synonyms: More (n), Thomas More (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Sir Thomas More

English words defined with "Sir Thomas More": Gresham's LawNew Latin UtopiaUtopia. (references)
Specialty definitions using "Sir Thomas More": AmaurotCity of the Sun, CommonwealthsFoolsUncumber. (references)

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Modern Usage: Sir Thomas More

DomainUsage

Clever

This hath not offended the king. (references; author: Sir Thomas More)

A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse. (references; author: Sir Thomas More)

The things, good Lord, that I pray for, give me thy grace to labour for. Amen. (references; author: Sir Thomas More)

For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble: and whoso doeth us a good turn we write it in dust. (references; author: Sir Thomas More)

They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters. (references; author: Sir Thomas More)

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Commercial Usage: Sir Thomas More

DomainTitle

Books

  • Sources of Four Plays Ascribed to Shakespeare: The Reign of King Edward Iii, Sir Thomas More, the History of Cardenio, the Two Nobel Kinsmen (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Image Slideshow: Sir Thomas More

Illustrations:
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Familiar Quotations: Sir Thomas More

AuthorQuotation

Sir Thomas More

This hath not offended the king.
A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.
The things, good Lord, that I pray for, give me thy grace to labour for. Amen.
For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble: and whoso doeth us a good turn we write it in dust.
They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Sir Thomas More

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

sir thomas more

79
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Anagrams: Sir Thomas More

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-h-i-m-m-o-o-r-r-s-s-t"

-4 letters: amortises, arthroses, arthrosis, atomisers, isotherms, marmosets, marshiest, mortisers, motorises, oratories, resmooths, restrooms, roommates, smarmiest, smoothers, smoothies, sororates.

-5 letters: amitoses, amorists, amortise, amosites, armoires, armories, armrests, assertor, assorter, asterism, atheisms, atomiser, atomises, atomisms, earshots, erotisms, hammiest, hamsters, heritors, heroisms, hoariest, hoarsest, hoisters, hommoses, horsiest, isotherm, maestoso, maestros, marishes, marmites, marmoset, marshier, mishears, mismates.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-h-i-m-m-o-o-r-r-s-s-t"
 

+4 letters: photogrammetrists.

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Alternative Orthography: Sir Thomas More


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 69 72      54 68 6F 6D 61 73      4D 6F 72 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01101001 01110010 00100000 01010100 01101000 01101111 01101101 01100001 01110011 00100000 01001101 01101111 01110010 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#105 &#114 &#32 &#84 &#104 &#111 &#109 &#97 &#115 &#32 &#77 &#111 &#114 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0069 0072      0054 0068 006F 006D 0061 0073      004D 006F 0072 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5375842547481796785247818471

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Quotations: Familiar
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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