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Imogen
Imogen ♀ The name owes its existence to a character in Shakespeare's Cymbeline (1609), but in earlier accounts of the events on which the play is based this character is named as Innogen, a name of Celtic origin, from Gaelic inghean ‘girl, maiden’. The modern form of the name is thus due to a misreading of these sources by Shakespeare, or of the play's text by his printer. It was in fairly select use until the 1990s, when it became quite popular.
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PATRICK HANKS, KATE HARDCASTLE, and FLAVIA HODGES. "Imogen." A Dictionary of First Names. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. PATRICK HANKS, KATE HARDCASTLE, and FLAVIA HODGES. "Imogen." A Dictionary of First Names. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O41-Imogen.html PATRICK HANKS, KATE HARDCASTLE, and FLAVIA HODGES. "Imogen." A Dictionary of First Names. 2006. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O41-Imogen.html |
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MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Imogen." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Imogen." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-Imogen.html MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Imogen." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-Imogen.html |
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Imogen •abrasion, Australasian, equation, Eurasian, evasion, invasion, occasion, persuasion, pervasion, suasion, Vespasian
•adhesion, cohesion, Friesian, lesion
•circumcision, collision, concision, decision, derision, division, elision, envision, excision, imprecision, incision, misprision, precisian, precision, provision, scission, vision
•subdivision • television • Eurovision
•LaserVision
•corrosion, eclosion, erosion, explosion, implosion
•allusion, collusion, conclusion, confusion, contusion, delusion, diffusion, effusion, exclusion, extrusion, fusion, illusion, inclusion, interfusion, intrusion, obtrusion, occlusion, preclusion, profusion, prolusion, protrusion, reclusion, seclusion, suffusion, transfusion
•Monaghan • Belgian
•Bajan, Cajun, contagion, Trajan
•Glaswegian, legion, Norwegian, region
•irreligion, religion
•Injun • Harijan • oxygen • antigen
•sojourn • donjon • Georgian
•theologian, Trojan
•Rügen
•bludgeon, curmudgeon, dudgeon, gudgeon, trudgen
•dungeon • glycogen • halogen
•collagen • Imogen • carcinogen
•hallucinogen • androgen
•oestrogen (US estrogen)
•hydrogen • nitrogen
•burgeon, sturgeon, surgeon
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"Imogen." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Imogen." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-Imogen.html "Imogen." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-Imogen.html |
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