"sur-name" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: sur-names [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|head=sur-name}} sur-name (plural sur-names)
  1. Obsolete form of surname. Tags: alt-of, obsolete Alternative form of: surname
    Sense id: en-sur-name-en-noun-HF7nBwRx Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1720, [Maurice Shelton], “The divers Beginnings of Nobility Dative”, in An Historical and Critical Essay on the True Rise of Nobility, Political and Civil; from the First Ages of the World, thro’ the Jewish, Grecian, Roman Commonwealths, &c. Down to This Present Time. […], 2nd edition, volume I, London: […] [T]he Author, page 275",
          "text": "It is likewiſe clear, that thoſe who have Sur-names from Lands in Scotland, are deſcended from ſuch Families as were poſſeſs’d of theſe Lands, when Sur-names were aſſum’d, except ſuch as have of late chang’d the Names of their Lands to their Sur-names, which are generally known in the Neighbourhood.",
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