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American Unitarian minister and humanitarian
Waitstill Hastings Sharp (1 May 1902 – 25 February 1983) was an American Unitarian minister who was involved in humanitarian and relief work in Czechoslovakia
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American humanitarian and social justice advocate
social justice work with her first husband, a Unitarian minister, Waitstill Sharp, and others of her denomination, and so helped hundreds of refugees
Martha_Sharp
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Waitstill is a given name. Notable people with the name include: Waitstill R. Ranney (1791–1853), American physician and politician Waitstill Sharp (1902–1983)
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German writer (1884–1958)
Marseille); Waitstill Sharp and Martha Sharp (a Unitarian minister and his wife who were in Europe on a similar mission as Fry). Waitstill Sharp volunteered
Lion_Feuchtwanger
American author (1870–1929)
He married Grace Hastings and the couple had four sons, including Waitstill Sharp. He was assistant librarian (1899–1902), assistant professor of English
Dallas_Lore_Sharp
2016 American TV series or program
Nazis: Sharps' War is a 2016 documentary film directed by Ken Burns and Artemis Joukowsky. The film is about the previously untold story of Waitstill and
Defying the Nazis: The Sharps' War
Defying_the_Nazis:_The_Sharps'_War
Surname list
BBC Radio Three presenter Waitstill Sharp (1902–1984), American Unitarian minister and humanitarian Walter Benona Sharp (1870–1912), American oil drilling
Sharp_(surname)
Town in Massachusetts, United States
television actor Dallas Lore Sharp, professor at Boston University, settled with his family (including Waitstill Sharp) in Hingham. Much of his writing
Hingham,_Massachusetts
Austrian composer (1879–1964)
that time. As exit visas could not be obtained, Fry and Unitarian Waitstill Sharp arranged for the Werfels to journey on foot across the Pyrenees into
Alma_Mahler
Non-Jews who saved Jews during the Holocaust
Eduardo Propper de Callejón United States 5 Varian Fry, Martha Sharp, Waitstill Sharp, Roddie Edmonds, Lois Gunden Estonia 3 Uku Masing Indonesia 3 Tole
Righteous_Among_the_Nations
American journalist (1907–1967)
Initially, Fry relied on the experienced Waitstill Sharp of the Unitarian Service Committee to help him. Sharp said he spent three days orienting Fry on
Varian_Fry
Refugee aid organisation
American organisation, began operating in Czechoslovakia in 1939. Waitstill and Martha Sharp were the Unitarian representatives. Two of the most important
British Committee for Refugees from Czechoslovakia
British_Committee_for_Refugees_from_Czechoslovakia
Czech writer (1890–1945)
States, he published The Song of Bernadette in 1941. Fry and Unitarian Waitstill Sharp organized a secret crossing over the Pyrenees on foot. Assisted by
Franz_Werfel
Film director and disabilities activist
for Archaeology and the Ancient World. He is the grandson of Waitstill Sharp and Martha Sharp, who helped save hundreds of Jews and other refugees endangered
Artemis_Joukowsky_III
American women's college (1891–1971)
singer and translator Martha Sharp-Cogan (A.B. 1926) – humanitarian who, together with her first husband Waitstill Sharp, was one of only five Americans
Pembroke College, Brown University
Pembroke_College,_Brown_University
Decade of the Gregorian calendar (1940–1949)
Jinnah Necdet Kent Aristides de Sousa Mendes Pope Pius XII Martha Sharp Waitstill Sharp Chiune Sugihara Raoul Wallenberg Abdel Rahman Azzam Pasha, Secretary-general
1940s
Martha Sharp (1905–1999) – American Unitarian who was named by the Yad Vashem organization as "Righteous Among the Nations." Waitstill Sharp (1902–1983)
List of Unitarians, Universalists, and Unitarian Universalists
List_of_Unitarians,_Universalists,_and_Unitarian_Universalists
(Dolores) Martínez (2016) United States 5 Varian Fry, Martha and Waitstill Sharp, Lois Gunden, and Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds Estonia 3 Uku and
List of Righteous Among the Nations by country
List_of_Righteous_Among_the_Nations_by_country
American humanitarian and Unitarian Univeralist
than take a hundred or so to America." Waitstill Sharp felt betrayed by his old friend, Dexter, and the Sharps continued their dual programs of aid and
Robert_Dexter
Award to honor rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust era
Propper de Callejón, 2008 Clara M. Ambrus (Bayer), 2008 Martha and Waitstill Sharp, 2007 Khaled Abdelwahhab, 2007 Ernst Leitz II, 2007 Mefail and Njazi
Courage_to_Care_Award
American archaeologist (1936–2022)
the ancient site of Petra in Jordan. Martha Sharp Joukowsky was the daughter of Waitstill Hastings Sharp and Martha Ingham Dickie, noted for aiding refugees
Martha_Sharp_Joukowsky
Aspect of France during World War II
Pickett. AFSC. Alice Resch. AFSC. Andrée Saloman. OSE. Martha Sharp. USC. Waitstill Sharp. USC. Aristides de Sousa Mendes, Portuguese Consul General in
Refugee workers in Vichy France
Refugee_workers_in_Vichy_France
refugee camps scattered around southern France. Working with American Waitstill Sharp, Lowrie's initial efforts were to help in the escape from France of
Donald_A._Lowrie
New England settler (1605–1685)
Plimpton William Russell (1857–1896), 37th governor of Massachusetts Waitstill Sharp Daniel Willard Henry Wellesley Wild Mary Billings French Rockefeller
Thomas_Hastings_(colonist)
Relief organization affiliated with the Unitarian Universalist Association
and the first American Unitarians to be posted there were Rev. Waitstill Hastings Sharp, a minister of the Unitarian Church in Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts
Unitarian Universalist Service Committee
Unitarian_Universalist_Service_Committee
British banker and humanitarian (1909–2015)
a dining room table in a hotel in Wenceslas Square. Americans Waitstill and Martha Sharp and British Quaker Tessa Rowntree were important members of the
Nicholas_Winton
2001 film
Vice Consul Harry Bingham is an ally, as Bingham has worked with Waitstill and Martha Sharp, taking Feuchtwanger, Hannah Arendt, and Marc and Bella Chagall
Varian's_War
Organised rescue of Jewish children during the Holocaust
through the work of Chadwick, Warriner, Beatrice Wellington, Waitstill and Martha Sharp, Quaker volunteers such as Tessa Rowntree, and others who worked
Kindertransport
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Surname or Lastname
English
English : occupational name for someone who used a whetstone to hone (sharpen) swords, daggers, and knives (see Hone 1).North German (Höner) : variant of Hohner.
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English
English : patronymic from Sharp.
Girl/Female
Tamil
Srutakeerthi | ஸரதாகிரதீ
One who is of sharp intellect
Srutakeerthi | ஸரதாகிரதீ
Boy/Male
Tamil
Nikshith | நீகà¯à®·à®¿à®¤
Sharpness
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English (common in Lancashire)
English (common in Lancashire) : habitational name from Sharples Hall near Bolton, probably so called from Old English scearp ‘sharp’, i.e. ‘steep’ + lǣs ‘pasture’.
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Tamil
Sharp
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English
English : nickname from Middle English scharp ‘keen’, ‘active’, ‘quick’.Irish (County Donegal) : Anglicized (part translated) form of Gaelic Ó Géaráin ‘descendant of Géarán’, a byname from a diminutive of géar ‘sharp’.Americanized form of any of several European names with similar meaning, for example German Scharf.
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English (mainly Lancashire and Cheshire)
English (mainly Lancashire and Cheshire) : unexplained.Probably an altered form of German Dornig, which is probably a nickname for someone with a sharp tongue, from an adjectival derivative of Middle High German, Middle Low German dorn ‘thorn’. The suffixes -ig and -ing were often interchanged in Pennsylvania German and elsewhere. The name may also refer to a sloe bush.
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Irish (Ulster)
Irish (Ulster) : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hÃr, meaning ‘long-lasting’. In Ireland this name is found in County Armagh; it has also long been established in Scotland.Irish : Anglicized form of Ó hAichir ‘descendant of Aichear’, a personal name derived from the epithet aichear ‘fierce’, ‘sharp’. In Ireland this name is more commonly Anglicized as O’Hehir.English : nickname for a swift runner (possibly a speedy messenger) or a timorous person, from Middle English hare ‘hare’. However, the surname Ayer and its variants was sometimes recorded as Hare.English : topographic name from an Old English hær ‘rock’, ‘heap of stones’, ‘tumulus’.French : according to Morlet, an occupational name for a huntsman, from a medieval French call used to urge on the hounds, or, in the form Haré, from the past participle of harer ‘to excite, stir up (hounds in pursuit of a quarry)’.
Boy/Male
Tamil
Midnight, Night, Sharp, Invigorated, Prepared, Iron, Steel
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English
English : occupational name for a grinder of grain, i.e. a miller, Middle English, Old English grindere, an agent noun from Old English grindan ‘to grind’. Less often it may have referred to someone who ground blades to keep their sharpness or who ground pigments, spices, and medicinal herbs to powder.
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English
English : topographic name for someone who lived by a boundary stone or a prominent outcrop of rock, from Middle English hÅn ‘stone’, ‘rock’. This is the same word as modern English hone ‘whetstone’, and the surname may also be a metonymic occupational name for someone who used a whetstone to sharpen swords, daggers, and knives.Dutch and North German (Höne) : from the Germanic personal name Huno, a short form of the various compound names with the first element hÅ«n. Compare, for example, Humphrey. The exact meaning of this element is disputed, but it may be cognate with Old Norse húnn ‘bear cub’.
Boy/Male
Tamil
Very dedicated, Sharp
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English (mainly East Anglia)
English (mainly East Anglia) : nickname for a lordly, impressive, or sharp-eyed man, from Middle English egle ‘eagle’ (from Old French aigle, from Latin aquila).English (of Norman origin) : habitational name from Laigle in Orne, France, the name of which ostensibly means ‘the eagle’, although it is possible that the recorded forms result from the operation of early folk etymology on some unknown original. Matilda de Aquila is recorded in 1129 as the widow of Robert Mowbray, Earl of Northumberland.Jewish : translation into English of Adler.
Girl/Female
Tamil
Inakshi | இநாகà¯à®·à¯€
Sharp eyed
Inakshi | இநாகà¯à®·à¯€
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Tamil
Midnight, Night, Sharp, Invigorated, Prepared, Iron, Steel
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Tamil
Sharp, Earth, Ganges
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from Sharperton in Northumberland, possibly so named from Old English scearp ‘steep’ + beorg ‘hill’, ‘mound’ + tūn ‘settlement’.
Boy/Male
Tamil
Nikshit | நீகà¯à®·à®¿à®¤
Sharpness
Nikshit | நீகà¯à®·à®¿à®¤
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English
English : habitational name from Maltby in Cleveland, Lincolnshire, and North and South Yorkshire, or Mautby in Norfolk, all named with the Old Norse byname Malti ‘sharp’, ‘bitter’ + Old Norse býr ‘farm’, ‘settlement’.
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Australian, Czechoslovakian, French, German, Polish, Russian, Slavic
Rule with Glory; Has Glory; Splendid Rule; To Rule with Glory; The Glorious Ruler; Glorious Ruler
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Hindu, Indian, Tamil
Winner
Girl/Female
Arabic, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Muslim, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu
Intelligence; Feminine Form of Mihir; The Sun
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Sikh
Imbued in colour of Love of God
Girl/Female
English
Star.
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English, North German, Danish, and Norwegian
English, North German, Danish, and Norwegian : topographic name for someone who lived in or by a small wood, Middle English, Middle Low German, Danish, Norwegian holt, or a habitational name from one of the very many places named with this word. In England the surname is widely distributed, but rather more common in Lancashire than elsewhere.Shortened form of Dutch van Holt, a habitational name from places named Holt (see 1).
Boy/Male
Tamil
Maheshwaram | மஹேஷà¯à®µà®¾à®°à®¾à®®
Lord of the universe
Girl/Female
Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Jain, Kannada
Deep Desire
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from Berkeley in Gloucestershire, named in Old English with be(o)rc ‘birch’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. Compare Scottish Barclay.Jewish (American) : assimilated form of Berkowitz.
Girl/Female
Tamil
Prakrithi | பà¯à®°à®•à¯à®°à¯€à®¤à¯€Â
Nature, Beautiful, Weather
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a.
To raise, as a sound, by means of a sharp; to apply a sharp to.
n.
A sharp tool or weapon.
n.
A long, sharp, flat-bottomed boat, with one or two masts carrying a triangular sail. They are often called Fair Haven sharpies, after the place on the coast of Connecticut where they originated.
v. i.
To grow or become sharp.
a.
To give a keen edge or fine point to; to make sharper; as, to sharpen an ax, or the teeth of a saw.
n.
A sharp tone or note.
n.
The quality or condition of being sharp; keenness; acuteness.
a.
To make more eager; as, to sharpen men's desires.
n.
A sewing needle having a very slender point; a needle of the most pointed of the three grades, blunts, betweens, and sharps.
v. t.
To sharpen.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Sharp
adv.
In a sharp manner,; keenly; acutely.
a.
Cut sharply or definitely, or so as to make a clear, well-defined impression, as the lines of an engraved plate, and the like; clear-cut; hence, having great distinctness; well-defined; clear.
a.
To make more tart or acid; to make sour; as, the rays of the sun sharpen vinegar.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Sharpen
v. i.
To play tricks in bargaining; to act the sharper.
a.
To make sharp.
a.
Eager in appetite or desire of gratification; affected by keen hunger; ravenous; as, an eagle or a lion sharp-set.
a.
To make more pungent and intense; as, to sharpen a pain or disease.
imp. & p. p.
of Sharp