Definition of Rebecca West

1. Noun. British writer (born in Ireland) (1892-1983).

Exact synonyms: Cicily Isabel Fairfield, Dame Rebecca West, West
Generic synonyms: Author, Writer

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rebecca West

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Reaganisms
Reaganite
Reaganites
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Real Estate Investment Trust
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Real Irish Republican Army
Reaumur
Reaumur scale
Reaumur thermometer
Reb
Rebecca
Rebecca Rolfe
Rebecca West (current term)
Rebekah
Rebel
Rebels
Reblochon
Rebuck skin window technique
RecA
Recamier's operation
Received Pronunciation
Recent epoch
Receptors for activated C Kinase
Rechabite
Rechabites
Recife
Recklinghausen

Literary usage of Rebecca West

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell by Thomas Bayly Howell (1816)
"... the said Anne then said unto the said Rebecca, be it uni» him according to his faith. The Confession of Rebecca West, taken before the said Justice» at ..."

2. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register (1913)
"Of the birth or death of any child of Benjamin and Rebecca Gray and Rebecca West were married in Boston liy Rev. John Webb 22 *og. 1728. Rebecca West, b. at ..."

3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1889)
"Rebecca West is one of Ibsen's most admirable creations. ... Rebecca West thirsts for power, for influence, for independence, and she is scarcely more ..."

4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1922)
"The Judge, by Rebecca West London: Hutchin- son. Is. (hi. ... The Judge makes us anxious that Miss Rebecca West should devote herself to imaginative, ..."

5. The People's History of Essex: Comprising a Narrative of Public and by Duffield William Coller (1861)
"Ann Leech, of Mistley, Hellen Clark, Rebecca West, and Anne West, ... The confession of Rebecca West, taken before the said justices at Manning- tree, ..."

6. A Guide to the Best Fiction in English by William Winter, George Saintsbury, Ernest Albert Baker (1913)
"The relation in which Rebecca West stands toward the emancipated Rosmer is not precisely defined. His purpose, as stated by himself, is to awaken the ..."

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