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Justine

Justine proper noun: a female given name from Latin.

Proper noun

Justine

  1. A female given name from Latin.
    • O you who have wept tears upon hearing of Virtue's miseries; you who have been moved to sympathy for the woe-ridden Justine; the while forgiving the perhaps too heavy brushstrokes we have found ourselves compelled to employ, may you at least extract from this story the same moral which determined...1953 Austryn Wainhouse, Justine, or Good Conduct Well Chastised, Grove Press 1990, page 743 ( translation of 1788 Marquis de Sade, Justine )
    • "What are you going to call your noisy daughter?" he asked as the door closed and they were alone.
      "Justine."
      "It's a very good name, but why did you choose it?"
      "I read it somewhere, and I liked it."1977, Colleen McCullough, The Thorn Birds, Gramercy Books, published 1998, →ISBN, page 377
  2. A male given name from French and Latin, of chiefly Philippine usage, variant of Justin.

Origin of Justine

From French Justine, from Latin Iūstīna, name of early saints, feminine of Iūstīnus, derivative of Iūstus, from iūstus (“just”). The feminine equivalent of Justin.

Questions about Justine

What does Justine mean?
Justine means a female given name from Latin.
What part of speech is Justine?
Justine is a proper noun.

Words near Justine in the dictionary

  1. justifying spaces
  2. justifyingly
  3. justifyings
  4. Justin
  5. Justina
  6. Justine
  7. JustinFlation
  8. justing
  9. justings
  10. Justinian
  11. Justinianean

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