English

Proper noun

Adolphus

1. A male given name, a Latinized variant of Adolph.
   • 1906 George Bernard Shaw: Major Barbara: Act III:

     Would any man named Adolphus - any man called Dolly! - object to being called something else?

   • 1986 Buchi Emecheta: Head Above Water. An Autobiography. p.11:

     Sometimes as a child I used to wonder why my brother was called after the man whose very name we were later taught to fear. But then who knows what goes on inside the minds of ambitious, proud Ibo fathers? As most Ibo boys born around that time were called Adolphus after the German leader, Adol is still a fairly common name among the Ibos of Nigeria.