makepeace

Speech parts

1. makepeace - Noun

2. Makepeace - Proper noun

Meaning

A surname transferred from the nickname.

(rare) A male given name transferred from the surname.

(rare) A peacemaker; one who reconciles persons at variance with one another; a composer of strife; an adjuster of differences.

(obsolete) A stick, rod or bundle of twigs made from birch wood, used for corporal punishment.

Synonyms

Examples

In 1848, for example, William Makepeace Thackeray gave Vanity Fair the subtitle A Novel without a Hero, and imagined a world in which no sympathetic character was to be found. Source: Internet

Their only child, William, was born on 18 July 1811. citation There is a fine miniature portrait of Anne Becher Thackeray and William Makepeace Thackeray, aged about two, done in Madras by George Chinnery c. 1813. Source: Internet

Mark Twain declined the offer, saying that the already-carved initials of William Makepeace Thackeray included his own. Source: Internet

Novelist William Makepeace Thackeray called the book "a national benefit, and to every man and woman who reads it a personal kindness". Source: Internet

The Parisians, though, was not published until 1872, while William Makepeace Thackeray 's novel Pendennis (1850) uses the phrase ironically, implying it was already established. Source: Internet

William Makepeace Thackeray was the first to refer to Irving as the "ambassador whom the New World of Letters sent to the Old", Thackeray, Roundabout Papers, 1860. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms