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Goneril [gon-er-il] Examples noun
- (in Shakespeare’s King Lear) the elder of Lear’s two faithless daughters.
Compare Cordelia, Regan. Examples from the Web for goneril Contemporary Examples of goneril
King Lear becomes Lear texting “okay who wants a kingdom,” to which Goneril replies “me me I do.”
Jennie Yabroff
December 23, 2014
Historical Examples of goneril
But Goneril excused herself, and said, what need of so many as five-and-twenty?
Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb
Goneril felt that the time had come for silence and good manners.
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While he was greeting her hostesses Goneril cast a rapid glance at him.
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Goneril spent most of the day watching the road from Florence.
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“A dear old lady,” murmured Goneril, much more interested in her posy.
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