ANSELM

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• ANSELM (noun)
  The noun ANSELM has 1 sense:

1. an Italian who was a Benedictine monk; was archbishop of Canterbury from 1093 to 1109; one of the founders of scholasticism; best known for his proof of the existence of God

  Familiarity information: ANSELM used as a noun is very rare.

• ANSELM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An Italian who was a Benedictine monk; was archbishop of Canterbury from 1093 to 1109; one of the founders of scholasticism; best known for his proof of the existence of God

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Anselm; Saint Anselm; St. Anselm

Instance hypernyms:

archbishop (a bishop of highest rank)

saint (a person who has died and has been declared a saint by canonization)

 Context examples 

By St. Anselm! it would be an evil day if we had to bend to our master's servants as well as to our masters.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Yet the Lady Loring held the place stoutly, and on the second day the Socman was slain—by his own men, as some think—so that we were delivered from their hands; for which praise be to all the saints, and more especially to the holy Anselm, upon whose feast it came to pass.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)