Boniface

[ bon-uh-feys, -fis; French baw-nee-fas ]

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noun

Saint Wynfrith, a.d. 680?–755?, English monk who became a missionary in Germany.
a jovial innkeeper in George Farquhar's The Beaux' Stratagem.
(lowercase) any landlord or innkeeper.
a male given name: from a Latin word meaning “doer of good.”

Boniface

/ ˈ��ɒ��ɪˌ�ڱ�ɪ�� /

noun

Boniface, Saint?680?755MAnglo-SaxonRELIGION: missionaryRELIGION: clergymanRELIGION: saint Saint . original name Wynfrith . ?680–?755 ad , Anglo-Saxon missionary: archbishop of Mainz (746–755). Feast day: June 5

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Boniface Mwabukusi, president of the Tanganyika Law Society, who visited the priest in hospital, said it had been "a brutal attack with the intent to take his life".

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"It was a beautiful party," says prominent human rights activist Boniface Mwangi, who was there.

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"There is a plan to call back the contractors to clean those areas to specification, to standard," Boniface Dumpe, a director at the BMI, told the BBC.

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“This is hypocrisy, and insensitivity of the highest order,” said rights activist Boniface Mwangi.

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Hundreds attended the Mass in her name at St. Boniface in Anaheim, my family’s home parish for decades.

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