Meaning

(rare) The art or practice of using epithets..

Example Sentences

Chang Loi’s ancestry with choice bits of elephant-folk epithetry so tangful they made even Barnsdale’s accustomed ears to pringle with their novelty and warmth.

Political epithetry of course is quite different from gobbledygook or bafflegab, which means bureaucratic lingo; we are keeping our pulse on bafflegab, too, but have time here only to report one new addition: 'quid pro quid.

But the theater can still inch toward total outcry: the stir of imagery inside the prose of Tennessee Williams, the crackle of wit that polarizes our attention in A Man for All Seasons (mote riveting on the stage because of our undeflected concentration on a mind), the undisguised rhetoric of Shaw and the onrushing epithetry of Albee and Osborne at their best all intimate the compulsion we have toward speech that sears, and, in the searing, seals.

When Should You Use Epithetry?

Use epithetry when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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