give name to

Example Sentences

• "[…] who may proceed against such Malignants where the Laws are wholy silent, and neither have given name to their fault, nor prescribed any punishment?"
• "1711, letter signed ‘T.’ in Joseph Addison and Richard Steele (eds.), The Spectator, No. 145, 16 August, 1711, in The Works of Joseph Addison, New York: Harper, 1850, Volume 1, p. 218, The skirt of your [men’s] fashionable coats forms as large a circumference as our [women’s] petticoats; as these are set out with whalebone, so are those with wire, to increase and sustain the bunch of fold that hangs down on each side; and the hat, I perceive is decreased in just proportion to the head-dresses. We [women] make a regular figure, but I defy your mathematics to give name to the form you [men] appear in."
• "1977, Audre Lorde, “Poetry Is Not a Luxury” in Sister Outsider, Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1984, p. 36, […] it is through poetry that we give name to those ideas which are—until the poem—nameless and formless, about to be birthed, but already felt."
• "The ensign of the Duke [of York] was a white rose, that of Henry a red. This gave name to the two houses, whose contentions were now about to drench the kingdom with slaughter."
• "1817, Walter Scott, Rob Roy, London: Ward, Lock, Introduction, p. xii, the author must now offer some notices of the individual who gives name to these volumes"
• "The new leaders moved their capital to Kamakura, an isolated town near present-day Tokyo, giving name to the era, the Kamakura period (1185-1333)."