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Mil⋅dred

[mil-drid]
–noun
a female given name: from Old English words meaning “mild” and “strength.”
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Mildred 
fem. proper name, O.E. Mildðryð, from milde "mild" + ðryð "power, strength." A popular name in the Middle Ages through fame of St. Mildred (obit c. 700), abbess, daughter of a Mercian king and a Kentish princess.
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