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A male given name from Latin. Popular in the U.K. in the mid-twentieth century. quotations examples
"Very likely the ragged scion of one of those Irish gentry, who has taken naturally to 'the road'. He should be at school - though I warrant me his knowledge of Terence will not extend beyond his own name," said Lord Henry Somerset, aid-de-camp to the Lord Lieutenant.
1867, Bret Harte, chapter I, in Terence Denville
They had an expensive, well-cut air which was like a uniform, and their conversation was all about people with names like Terence and Geoffrey, Philippa and Vivien, who lived in London and County Wicklow and who were "terribly amusing".
1963, Jane McIlvaine, Cammie's Cousin, Bobbs-Merrill, page 58