Reginald
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Definitions
- 1 A male given name from the Germanic languages derived from a Latinized form of Reynold.
"Reginald Wilfer is a name with rather a grand sound, suggesting on first acquaintance brasses in country churches, scrolls in stained-glass windows, and generally the De Wilfers who came over with the Conqueror. For, it is a remarkable fact in genealogy that no De Any ones ever came over with Anybody else. - - - He was shy, and unwilling to own to the name of Reginald, as being too aspiring and self-assertive a name. In his signature he used only the initial R., and imparted what it really stood for, to none but chosen friends, under the seal of confidence."
Example
More examples"Reginald Musgrave had been in the same college as myself, and I had some slight acquaintance with him."
Etymology
From Latin Reginaldus, Latinization of names deriving from Proto-Germanic *Raginawaldaz.
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