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Character Name

Libbie

Meaning — A diminutive of Elizabeth or Libby, from the Hebrew Elisheba meaning "my God is an oath" or "my God is abundance". The nickname Libbie was popular in the Victorian era, associated with the familiar American diminutive tradition. It was the nickname of Elizabeth Bacon Custer, wife of General George Custer, through whose memoirs the name acquired historical associations.·Latin origin·Female·LIB-ee

Libbie Libbie has the warm informality of the Victorian nickname tradition — a name that strips the scriptural weight from Elizabeth and replaces it with the intimacy of the family circle and the frontier community. The Elizabethan Hebrew root of divine abundance persists beneath the diminutive form, giving a character named Libbie access to considerable inner resource despite the modest, familiar exterior. It suits protagonists of the American West or Victorian domestic world whose unpretentious exterior conceals extraordinary inner life.

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Historical FictionLiterary FictionRomanceHistorical Romance

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