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Alternative forms

• Terrance
• Terrence
• Terance

Proper noun

Terence

1. A male given name. Popular in the U.K. in the mid-twentieth century.
   • 1867 Bret Harte, Terence Denville: Chapter I:

     "Very likely the ragged scion of one of those Irish gentry, who has taken naturally to 'the road'. He should be at school - though I warrant me his knowledge of Terence will not extend beyond his own name," said Lord Henry Somerset, aid-de-camp to the Lord Lieutenant.

   • 1963 Jane McIlvaine, Cammie's Cousin, Bobbs-Merrill, page 58:

     They had an expensive, well-cut air which was like a uniform, and their conversation was all about people with names like Terence and Geoffrey, Philippa and Vivien, who lived in London and County Wicklow and who were "terribly amusing".

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