clarissa
Speech parts
1. clarissa - Noun
2. Clarissa - Proper noun
Meaning
Clarissa
A female given name from Latin or Italian.
Clarissa (plural Clarissas)
(Catholicism) Synonym of Poor Clare: a nun of the Order of Saint Clare.
clarissa (plural clarissas)
(Catholicism) Alternative letter-case form of Clarissa: a nun of the Order of Saint Clare.
Synonyms
Examples
You have ruthlessness in your bones and ice in your heart, Clarissa. Don't tell me any differently.
These days, Clarissa believes, you measure people first by their kindness and their capacity for devotion. You get tired, sometimes, of wit and intellect; everybody's little display of genius.
Give me the baby,” Maryse said jealously. "You've had him for four whole minutes, Clarissa.
He reported that E. E. Smith was a large, blond, athletic, very intelligent, very gallant man, married to a remarkably beautiful, intelligent, red-haired woman named MacDougal (thus perhaps the prototypes of 'Kimball Kinnison' and 'Clarissa MacDougal').
Clarissa is a frustrated dancer, Mimi is a stubborn retired trapeze artist (for no reason that I could divine) but she has dough.
The first two lines are quoted by Virginia Woolf in Mrs. Dalloway by the two main characters Clarissa and Septimus Smith.