单词 | antonomasy |
释义 | antonomasyn. Rhetoric. rare. = antonomasia n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > [noun] > calling by name > use of epithet (etc.) for proper name antonomasia1555 antonomasy1607 pronomination1611 1607 R. C. in tr. H. Estienne World of Wonders To Rdr. sig. A3v Calling it no more..the mount of Oliues or of vnction, but (by an excellent Antonomasy) Mons mashchith, the mount of corruption. 1737 B. Martin Bibliotheca Technologica 180 Antonomasy gives new Names. The Poet Chanted Pelides' Worth, that Men might know it. 1856 H. F. Brownson tr. J. L. Balmes Fund. Philos. II. v. vii. 144 Those sciences which are called exact by antonomasy do not disdain this condition. 1987 Dictionaries 9 15 If I refer to the goddess Venus as, say, ‘the divine girl, the source and ruler of love’, it is the same antonomasy as if Elizabeth II is referred to as ‘the present Queen of Great Britain’. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1607 |
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