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Anguish
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anguish
English
Etymology
The given name, most famously borne by the character of King Anguish of Ireland, is thought to be a variant of en Aengus/en Angus, from en ga -.Ronan Coghlan, Irish First Names (1985), page 7 The surname is probably also a variant of en Angus.9 1 Anguish a corr. form of Angus, q.v.
Proper noun
en.
1698 December 29, record from Thorington, printed in 1884 Thomas Smythe Hill, The registers of the parish of Thorington, page 56:
Edmund Anguish of Somerleighton
en 1907 Canadian Bee Journal 15-16 70 By request, Mr. Anguish, who is an expert on comb honey, was asked to give some points on its production: Mr. Anguish uses a divisible brood chamber.
en 1919 House Journal of the Legislature of the State of Washington 548 On motion of Mr. Anguish, the House concurred in the Senate amendments to House Bill No. 115 by the following vote: Those voting yea were: Representatives Adams (Wm. H.), Adamson, Allen, Anderson (W. M.), Anguish, Aspinwall, Atkinson
en rare en male.
en 1819 Durant v Titley Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Exchequer 1835 Francis Joseph Troubat; George Price 231 been ready and willing to take one of the children by her husband, not being the eldest, to live with her; and that she did afterwards fix upon one of such children, named Anguish, and did request her husband to permit the said child to reside and live with her, and the defendant futher pleaded, that the said Anguish, the said child in the said declaration mentioned was not born at the time of the sealing and delivering of the said indenture, but long afterwards.
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