1. clarissa - Noun
2. Clarissa - Proper noun
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.
You have ruthlessness in your bones and ice in your heart, Clarissa. Don't tell me any differently. Cassandra Clare
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. Michael Cunningham
Give me the baby,” Maryse said jealously. "You've had him for four whole minutes, Clarissa. Cassandra Clare
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'). Source: Internet
Clarissa is a frustrated dancer, Mimi is a stubborn retired trapeze artist (for no reason that I could divine) but she has dough. Source: Internet
The first two lines are quoted by Virginia Woolf in Mrs. Dalloway by the two main characters Clarissa and Septimus Smith. Source: Internet