Epithet
An adjective expressing some quality, attribute, or relation, that is properly or specially appropriate to a person or thing; as, a just man; a verdant lawn.
Term; expression; phrase.
To describe by an epithet.
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Epithet Quotations
In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.
Paul Gauguin
Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.
Mary Wollstonecraft
As a result of the feminist revolution, 'feminine' becomes an abusive epithet.
Wyndham Lewis
Epithet Translations
epithet in German is Beiwort
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