Allonymy

Quick meaning: Allonymy is a noun meaning The use of allonyms.

Meaning

The use of allonyms.

Example Sentences

Recent archaeological and epigraphic discoveries at the site of Tell Shiukh Fawqani in the Tishrin region" allow us to add a case of natural allonymy to the institutional allonymies already quoted for the Upper Syrian Euphrates.

The signatures appended to that story change and multiply, but only as allographs — the ghostly amanuensis displaced by his protean signature, an allonymy which screens out the aleatory signators by substituting itself in their vacated place.

Allonymy, I think, should be distinguished from the ordinary indirect naming in that the former presupposes a habitual avoidance of the proper name of the person designated, as this is indeed already implied in the descriptions of Tylor and Winick.

Word Forms

• allonymies

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include heteronymy, polyonymy, polyonomy, synonymy, homonymity, polyonymosity.

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