Campion meaning

kăm'pē-ən
Any of several plants of the genera Lychnis and Silene native chiefly to the Northern Hemisphere and having variously colored flowers with notched or fringed petals.
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Any of various flowering plants (genera Lychnis and Silene) of the pink family, with white, red, or pink flowers.
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1567-1620; Eng. poet & composer of songs.
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Any flowering plant of the genus Lychnis.
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Any flowering plant of the genus Silene.
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Origin of campion

  • Origin unknown
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Campion Sentence Examples

  • In 1581 he had a controversy with the Jesuit Edmund Campion, and published at Oxford his arguments in 1638 under the title, Piissimi et eminentissimi viri Tobiae Matthew, archiepiscopi olim Eboracencis concio apologetica adversus Campianam.

  • On his release he went to London, where he was a member of the association of young men founded in 1580 to assist the Jesuits Edmund Campion and Robert Parsons.

  • In 1580 he was selected, along with Edmund Campion, a former associate at Oxford, and others, to undertake a secret religious and political mission to England.

  • In 1581 Campion was arrested, but Parsons made his escape to Rouen, whence he returned to Rome, where he continued to direct the English mission.

  • During his term of office there took place the troubles in Rome concerning the English college and the subsequent Jesuit rule over that institution; and in 1580 the first Jesuit mission, headed by the redoubtable Robert Parsons and the saintly Edmund Campion, set out for England.

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