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Significados de epithet en inglés

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An informal, often humorous name; a name that is either connected to the real name, the personality, the appearance or an anecdote.

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A defamatory or abusive word or phrase.

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Uso de epithet en inglés
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She also was known by other names: Elat, her most common epithet.
Snow Crash
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The epithet Silent was in no way applicable to his general character.
By Pike and Dyke: a Tale of the Rise of the Dutch Republic
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It is certainly a catchy epithet, but what does it actually mean?
The Guardian
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Usually as a near epithet from her family and friends in Sandholm.
Fractures - Extraordinary Tales from the Halo Canon
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Primrosy is the epithet which this year will retain in my recollection.
Our Village
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Usually I have not taken the trouble even to notice the epithet.
Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography
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He checked himself on the first hissing breath of the foul epithet.
Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise
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In conversation they generally use a periphrastic epithet, such as the All-Good.
The Coming Race
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He muttered an epithet that expressed his doubt in one explosive syllable.
G'day to die: a passport to peril mystery
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The one epithet refers to atmosphere, the other to number of pages.
The Bibliotaph, and Other People
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Those who levied tonnage and poundage were branded with the same epithet.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol. I., Part E. / From...
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Gray, in repeating this imagery, has borrowed a remarkable epithet from Milton:
Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2
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I mean to marry the lady to whom you give that epithet.
The Flight of the Shadow
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I believe you must substitute some more indifferent epithet for the present.
The Coquette, or, The History of Eliza Wharton / A Novel: Founde...
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If you insist on the longer line, equip 'grave' with an epithet.
The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 2
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The epithet seemed intended to apply to every non-Okie in the universe.
Cities in Flight
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