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spenser

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for spenser.

Editorial note

A notable exception would be Edmund Spenser who wrote in a style that was archaic even to his contemporaries.

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Quick take

(countable) A surname originating as an occupation, variant of Spencer, a rare spelling variant of Spencer.

Meaning at a glance

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noun

(countable) A surname originating as an occupation, variant of Spencer, a rare spelling variant of Spencer.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for spenser.

noun

(countable) A surname originating as an occupation, variant of Spencer, a rare spelling variant of Spencer.

Example sentences

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A notable exception would be Edmund Spenser who wrote in a style that was archaic even to his contemporaries.

2

Can you send me a note at spenser@amplitude.com with your thoughts on what you'd like to see?

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It was also a problem for which the market had not yet, in Spenser and Curtis’s opinion, come up with a great solution.

4

Send me an email at spenser@amplitude.com and we can go over what you need.

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Minnie balls, Spenser Rifles, trenches, revetments and mechanized transport by rail and steamship contributed to the 1,000,000 deaths in the US Civil War.

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UCL had baked beans and pies, the staff club had the same baked beans and pies but you could eat them under a superb Stanley Spenser oil painting of the resurrection.

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If this offers me the ability to snag every book in a series (say, all of Richard Stark's Parker novels, or all of Robert Parker's Spenser novels), then that actually sounds like an incredible deal.

Quote examples

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I’ve been reading “Deschooling Society” by Ivan Illich while slowly working my way through Spenser’s “The Faerie Queene”.

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Hmm - I re-upped* this post after seeing it, but I wonder if Spenser is now busy with other things, since more than "a couple hours" have passed.

3

I really got into reading Spenser's "The Faerie Queene" (about 1497) about a year ago, and I suspect that really helped me with this exercise, since he uses some language that was archaic even back then.

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Parker, where his tough PI Spenser and his comrades Hawk and Susan Silverman go up against some Boston area tongs, and the Chinese people in that book are interesting, "round" characters; so I'm glad Parker had either never heard of this particular rule and chose to ignore it.

Proper noun examples

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Bellay (and Spenser) claim that the only city that was ultimately able to conquer ancient Rome is...

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The poetic reference to Rome being better than Rome reminds me of Edmund Spenser's adaptation of Bellay's poem about Rome.

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Spenser from Amplitude here, happy to answer any questions you guys have about what we're up to.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use spenser in a sentence?

A notable exception would be Edmund Spenser who wrote in a style that was archaic even to his contemporaries.

What does spenser mean?

(countable) A surname originating as an occupation, variant of Spencer, a rare spelling variant of Spencer.

What part of speech is spenser?

spenser is commonly used as noun.