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Medieval English vernacular form of Clara, from the Latinclara, feminine of clarus(“bright, shining, clear”), a post-classical name made famous by the 13th century Saint Clara of Assisi.
In Oxfordshire, from Clarora, a clay slope.
Proper noun
Clare
A female given name from Latin, more often spelled Claire from the 20th century onward.
c.1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
: Act I, Scene IV:
Yes, truly: I speak not as desiring more,
But rather wishing a more strict restraint
Upon the sisterhood, the votarists of Saint Clare.
1991, Thomas Head, "Clare of Assisi", An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers: