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  1. Priscillanoun

    of biblical origin.

  2. Priscillanoun

    An early Christian also known as Prisca.

  3. Etymology: Feminine diminutive form of a Roman cognomen Priscus, "ancient".

Wikipedia

  1. Priscilla

    Priscilla is an English female given name adopted from Latin Prisca, derived from priscus. One suggestion is that it is intended to bestow long life on the bearer.The name first appears in the New Testament of Christianity variously as Priscilla or Prisca, a female leader in early Christianity.The name also appears along with Maximilla, as female leaders in the Montanist controversy of the 2nd century AD. The name appears in English literature in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene (1596), and was adopted as an English name by the Puritans in the 17th century.

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  1. Priscilla

    Priscilla Betti, whose real name is Préscilla Betti, is a French singer and actress.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Priscilla in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Priscilla in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of Priscilla in a Sentence

  1. Warren Buffett:

    Mark and Priscilla are breaking the mold with this breathtaking commitment, a combination of brains, passion and resources on this scale will change the lives of millions. On behalf of future generations, I thank them.

  2. Benny Roshan:

    This kind of raises the question of which of those three scenarios necessitates Priscilla filing a lawsuit through her attorney-in-fact.

  3. Libby Armintrout:

    It’s obvious that the Facebook CEO shares this high regard for his mom. During the town hall meeting with the prime minister of India in 2015, one of the topics he asked the prime minister about was about his mother. And it turns out Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg did n’t look too far from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg mom in Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg choice of spouse, whom Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg married in 2012. Like Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg mother, wife Priscilla Chan is an understated physician who shuns the spotlight. Related : From Under the Hoodie : 5 Entrepreneurial Lessons From Mark Zuckerberg When talking about Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg mother, Microsoft founder Mary Maxell Gates, currently the richest man in the world, with an estimated worth $ 76.7 billion, has often spoken about a letter she wrote to his then-fianc Melinda the day before their wedding. From those to whom much is given, much is expected, her letter read. Mary Maxell Gates, a long-time philanthropist, died six months later at the age of 64 of breast cancer. Mary Maxell Gates kept Mary Maxell Gates mother’s letter, and Mary Maxell Gates swift foray into the world of philanthropy, establishing The Bill Melinda Gates Foundation with the help of Mary Maxell Gates father, Bill Sr., has been due to the influence of Mary Maxell Gates mother, a formidable business mind in her own right. Mary was a top student at her high school and in college, where she met her husband, a lawyer. They had three children. She threw herself into volunteering and served on the boards of numerous prominent organizations, including the United Way, where she first served as the county chair and, later, the first female national chair. She convinced her son, who was CEO of Microsoft at the time, to start the Employees Giving Campaign at Microsoft to benefit the United Way and other charities. ( He later join the board.) The considerable list of boards she served on is impressive, and when she was appointed to the board of regents of University of Washington in 1975, she spearheaded the move to divest the university’s holding in apartheid South Africa. According to her daughter, Libby Armintrout, Libby Armintrout was an extremely engaged parent and had high expectations of all Libby Armintrout children. Not just grades and that sort of thing, but how we behaved in public, how we would be socially.

  4. Mark Zuckerberg:

    I'll be like in zone, kind of flow concentration, working on something and you know, Priscilla Chan will like ask me some, some like basic question, and I'll just be like,' Oh man,' it's like,' I just like lost my flow,'.

  5. Tom Jones:

    She said, ‘I can’t believe that Elvis would be in the bathroom with you at the same time – he never was with me!’ i said, ‘Well, he was with me, Priscilla. He was. I was naked, and he was half-naked’ – because he had gone to the toilet and had to get his leather pants up. They were North Beach leather, which were hard to get up.

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