Irene
Americannoun
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Classical Mythology. one of the Horae, the personification of peace.
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Also Irena A female given name.
noun
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?752–803 ad , Byzantine ruler (780–90, 792–97, joint ruler with her son Constantine VI; 797–802). She is venerated as a saint in the Greek Orthodox Church
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Greek myth the goddess of peace
Example Sentences
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The two motherless African-American children at the heart of “Kin,” Vernice Irene Davis and Annie Kay Henderson, who grow up as “cradle friends” in Honeysuckle, La., are easy to feel for.
Determined to give her niece a stable upbringing, Aunt Irene unhappily but dutifully left a comfortable life in Ohio to return to her small-minded hometown in the Deep South.
Irene drummed into her charge the importance of manners, religion, education and comportment, which serve Vernice well as she moves into a world beyond her hometown.
On the particular afternoon that Camille is out to lunch with Irene and Lisa, she’s feeling similarly unhappy.
From Salon
Clare and Irene, the two main characters in this electric novella, are both black but light-skinned.
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