Gloriana

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Gloriana

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Coined by English poet Edmund Spenser to represent Elizabeth I in his poem The Faerie Queene (1590), from Latin glōria (“glory”) + -ana, from Latin -āna, feminine of -ānus (“of or pertaining to”).

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Sobriquet for Elizabeth I (1533–1603), Queen of England and Ireland. In “The Sayings of Queen Elizabeth” (The Bodley Head; 16s.), Mr. Chamberlin deals very faithfully with a scandal that has nothing to do with sixteenth-century gossip about the Queen’s morals. It is a purely academic outrage: Froude’s Bowdlerisations of Gloriana’s good things, which the historian par
Similar: Good Queen Bess, Queen Bess
A female given name. After Mr. Smith’s decease, she m. for a 2d husband, and as his 2d wife, Dr. George Muirson of Setauket, L. I. (son of Rev. George Muirson of Hempstead, L. I., and Gloriana Smith, dau. of Col. William Smith).

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@misc{gloriana_2026,
  title = {Gloriana},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/gloriana},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}