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the name that made purity a plot twist.
means a shortened form of theresa (or teresa), most famously the doomed heroine of hardy's tess of the d'urbervilles.
from from theresa, from greek therizein, to harvest, or possibly from the island of thera; tess became its own name through hardy's 1891 novel, which made the diminutive iconic enough to stand alone.
hardy's subtitlecalled her a pure woman, controversially.
pop culturetess is the survivor in the last of us.
name popularityspiked in scandinavia and the uk, not the us.