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Aloysius

[ al-oh-ish-uhs ]

noun

  1. a male given name: from a Germanic word meaning “famous warrior.”


Aloysius

/ ˌæləʊˈɪʃəs /

noun

  1. Aloysius, Saint15681591MItalianRELIGION: saintRELIGION: clergyman Saint. full name Aloysius Luigi Gonzaga . 1568–91, Italian Jesuit who died nursing plague victims; the patron saint of youth. Feast day: June 21


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The police on the scene were in for more than one surprise at the St. Aloysius rectory.

There are dinner scenes where the nuns, dominated by Sister Aloysius, drink their milk and eat in silence.

Sister Aloysius accuses him of seducing Donald but does she even know what seduction means?

Will Sister Aloysius ever allow herself to be caught up in the winds of change?

Brother Aloysius caught hold of Michael's arm and spoke through clenched teeth.

Nothing in his present phase had yet moved him so actually as his brief encounter with Brother Aloysius.

St. Aloysius college, under the care of the Jesuits, is an academical institution of some celebrity.

There was here nothing to support the diabolic legend with which under the suggestion of Brother Aloysius he had endowed it.

He remembered to this day the gleam in Brother Aloysius' blue eyes when he was gathering the blackberries by that hazel-coppice.

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