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Definition of Thomas More

1. Noun. English statesman who opposed Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon and was imprisoned and beheaded; recalled for his concept of Utopia, the ideal state.

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Thomas More

Thomas J. Hanks Thomas J. Jackson Thomas Jackson Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jonathan Jackson Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr. Thomas Kid Thomas Kyd Thomas Lanier Williams Thomas Malory

Thomas Malthus Thomas Mann Thomas Merton Thomas Middleton Thomas Moore Thomas More (current term) Thomas Nast Thomas Nelson Page Thomas Paine Thomas Pynchon

Thomas Reid Thomas Robert Malthus Thomas splint Thomas Stearns Eliot Thomas Straussler Thomas Sully Thomas Sydenham Thomas Tallis Thomas the doubting Apostle Thomas Wentworth Storrow Higginson

Literary usage of Thomas More

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1. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"England was still mediaeval and scholastic when Thomas More was a page in the ... The highly susceptible nature of Thomas More felt nevertheless the ..."

2. Original Letters, Illustrative of English History: Including Numerous Royal by Henry Ellis (1825)
"Sir Thomas More to Cardinal Wolsey, expressing the King's wish to favor the town of Wex- ford in Ireland 195 LXIX. Sir Thomas More to Cardinal Wolsey. ..."

3. The Oxford Reformers by Frederic Seebohm (1896)
"ERASMUS FALLS IN LOVE WITH Thomas More (1498). CHAP- m- Amongst the broken gleams of light which fall, here A'D-1 8' and there only, upon the Oxford ..."

4. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1894)
"Miss Anne Manning's Household of Sir Thomas More ( 1851 ) is a fanciful but attrattive ... In Southey's Sir Thomas More, or Colloquies on the Progress and ..."

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