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mel-ee-OR-ah; mel-YOHR-ah

Meliora

OriginLatin, Cornish
Meaning"better; honey"
GenderGirl

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  • Mellyora

    character in Victoria Holt's novel "The Legend of the Seventh Virgin" set in Cornwall, counterpart to the heroine, Kerensa. ("I called her Melly to myself, just to rob her of a little dignity. Mellyora! It sounded so pretty when people said it. I have never heard that Mellyora meant anything.")

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    heroine,victim ("Damp not the fires thou hast rais'd with seeming Coiness! I know thou art mine...By Heaven, cry'd he: I will this Night be Master of my Wishes, no Matter what to Morrow may bring forth!") in Eliza Haywood's novel "Love in Excess; or, The Fatal Enquiry" (1719,20)

  • Meliora

    Motto for the University of Rochester, translated as "ever better"

  • Meliora

    Name of the third album by the Swedish band Ghost

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