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Clarissa
Clarissa
See also: clarissa
English
Proper noun
Clarissa
- A female given name.
- 1748 Samuel Richardson: Clarissa, or The History of a Young Lady:
- My wife's maiden name - Unmarried name, I should rather say - - - was Harlowe - Clarissa Harlowe - you heard me call her my Clarissa -
- I did - but I thought it to be a feigned or a love-name, said Miss Rawlins. - - -
- No - it was her real name, I said.
- 1748 Samuel Richardson: Clarissa, or The History of a Young Lady: