"Sybil" meaning in English

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          "text": "Alternative form: sybil"
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          "ref": "1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter IV, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 90:",
          "text": "The Library looked tranquil enough as I entered it, and the Sybil—if Sybil she were, was seated snugly enough in an easy chair at the chimney-corner.",
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        "Prophetess; hag."
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        "Ellipsis of Sybil attack."
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          "ref": "1845, Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil, Book 3, Chapter 5:",
          "text": "\"I beg your pardon,\" said Egremont blushing; \"I was reading your name. I thought I was reading it to myself. Sybil Gerard! What a beautiful name is Sybil!\" \"My mother's name,\" said Gerard; \"and my grandame's name, and a name I believe that has been about our hearth as long as our race; and that's a very long time indeed,\" he added smiling, \"for we were tall men in King John's reign, as I have heard say.\"",
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        "Prophetess; hag."
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