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Wilfred

or ¾·ڰ

[ wil-frid ]

noun

  1. a male given name: from Old English words meaning “will” and “peace.”


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Wilfred Ndidi signed a new three-year contract last summer but his appetite for another Championship campaign is likely to have waned and the same will go for defenders Ricardo Pereira and Wout Faes.

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To me, the glory of the Mulliner stories are a sequence of three stories — “Mulliner’s Buck-U-Uppo,” “The Bishop’s Move” and “Gala Night,” all related to his brother Wilfred’s invention of a tonic meant to “provide Indian Rajahs with a specific which would encourage their elephants to face a tiger of the jungle with a jaunty sang-froid,” and what happens when unsuspecting users swallow a tumblerful of something that should be taken by the teaspoon.

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Benjamin Britten's War Requiem incorporated the words of the World War One poet Wilfred Owen - whose poetry had also faded from popular consciousness - to a new generation.

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Wilfred Duncan, Pasadena’s first black firefighter, was among the new arrivals.

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During that trial, then Bishop of Croydon Wilfred Wood appeared as a character witness for Tudor, describing him as having "the utmost integrity", according to press reports.

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