Shown

Shown

Shown is an American surname that reflects an Anglicization of the German surname Schaun. A common variant is Shawn. Examples:

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Famous quotes containing the word shown:

    Therefore, I tell you, her sins, which were many, have been forgiven; hence she has shown great love.
    Bible: New Testament, Luke 7:47.

    Nothing has shown more fully the prodigious ignorance of human ideas and their littleness, than the discovery of [Sir William] Herschell, that what used to be called the Milky Way is a portion of perhaps an infinite multitude of worlds!
    Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

    “The ideal reasoner,” he remarked, “would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it.”
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)