Miriam
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Miriam
From Late Latin Mariam, from Greek Mariám, from Hebrew Miryām, of uncertain origin; Mary ( def. )
Example Sentences
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These are two Europeans: Miriam, a deeply feeling, moody, beautiful Jewish-British painter with a mysterious past; and Donatello, an Italian Bacchus who closely resembles the ancient Greek sculptor Praxiteles’ “Faun.”
A male model with whom Miriam is ambiguously connected is following her around Rome.
Indeed, the story of Miriam, Hilda, Kenyon and Donatello can be read as the story of America in miniature.
In Miriam, Hawthorne invests all the moral ambiguities of a fallen modern world.
Miriam is vivacious and energetic but dogged by an unexplained sin from her earlier life—a sin that vests itself in the sinister person of her “model.”
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