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St. John

Proper noun

Meaning

A male given name transferred from the surname.

A city in North Dakota.

A city in St. Louis County, Missouri.

A township in Lake County, Indiana.

An unincorporated community in Wisconsin.

An English surname from Old French.

Alternative form of Saint John

A locale in the United States.
An unincorporated community in Florida.

A town in Lake County, Indiana, partly within St. John Township; named for early settler John Hack.

A city, the county seat of Stafford County, Kansas; named for Kansas Governor John St. John.

An inactive township in New Madrid County, Missouri.

An unincorporated community in Pulaski County, Missouri.

A town in Washington; named for early settler E. T. St. John.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

What I am looking for... is an immobile movement, something which would be the equivalent of what is called the eloquence of silence, or what St. John of the Cross, I think it was, described with the term 'mute music'. Joan Miró

REVELATION, n. A famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the commentators, who know nothing. Ambrose Bierce

Of the sayings of Christ in the Synoptic Gospels that can be compared to those in the fourth Gospel, there are one or two which I venture to think can only have been recorded on the authority of St. John. Alfred Noyes

To allude negligently to Kafka, Yeats, Proust, Stendhal, or St. John of the Cross in a tone of of-course-you-know-them is canonical for Mademoiselle contributors, whatever the topic in hand. Mary McCarthy

St. John Telegraph – he was loved by the people and his political opponents were compelled to respect him even above their own chosen leader. As a statesman, he has had few equals. Alexander Mackenzie

Because of John hating St. John. Bulgarian Proverb

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