"Dimity" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "The given name is apparently from the name of the light cotton fabric, dimity. However, since it is found primarily as an Irish name, it may have originated as a feminine equivalent of Dermot.",
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      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Dimity",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "name": "English female given names",
          "parents": [
            "Female given names",
            "Given names",
            "Names",
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            "Proper nouns",
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            "Fundamental",
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          "_dis": "79 21",
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1990, Miss Read (Dora Jessie Saint), Friends at Thrush Green, 2002, page 98,\n'Raffle books,' she announced.\n'What for?' enquired Dimity, feeling for her purse and about to do a vicar's wife's familiar duty."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A female given name of modern usage."
      ],
      "id": "en-Dimity-en-name-vUs-8wUX",
      "links": [
        [
          "given name",
          "given name"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English surnames",
          "parents": [],
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1843, N. P. Willis, “Meena Dimity: Or Why Mr. Brown Crash Took His Tour”, in George R. Graham, Rufus W. Griswold, editors, Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature and Art, volumes 22-23, page 134",
          "text": "The Diaper family lived in Sassafras street—the Dimity family in Pepperidge street; and the fathers of the Diaper girls and the Dimity girls were worth about the same money, and had both made it in the lumber line.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A surname."
      ],
      "id": "en-Dimity-en-name-EMUC1F3L",
      "links": [
        [
          "surname",
          "surname"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Dimity"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English proper nouns",
    "English uncountable nouns"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "The given name is apparently from the name of the light cotton fabric, dimity. However, since it is found primarily as an Irish name, it may have originated as a feminine equivalent of Dermot.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Dimity",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English female given names",
        "English given names"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1990, Miss Read (Dora Jessie Saint), Friends at Thrush Green, 2002, page 98,\n'Raffle books,' she announced.\n'What for?' enquired Dimity, feeling for her purse and about to do a vicar's wife's familiar duty."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A female given name of modern usage."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "given name",
          "given name"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English surnames",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1843, N. P. Willis, “Meena Dimity: Or Why Mr. Brown Crash Took His Tour”, in George R. Graham, Rufus W. Griswold, editors, Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature and Art, volumes 22-23, page 134",
          "text": "The Diaper family lived in Sassafras street—the Dimity family in Pepperidge street; and the fathers of the Diaper girls and the Dimity girls were worth about the same money, and had both made it in the lumber line.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A surname."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "surname",
          "surname"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Dimity"
}