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.

Exact synonyms: More, Sir Thomas More
Generic synonyms: National Leader, Solon, Statesman, Author, Writer

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 Stearns Eliot
Thomas Straussler
Thomas Sully
Thomas Sydenham
Thomas Tallis
Thomas Wentworth Storrow Higginson
Thomas Wolfe
Thomas Woodrow Wilson

Literary usage of Thomas More

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

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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