Definition of Epithet

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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

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

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

As a result of the feminist revolution, "feminine" becomes an abusive epithet.
Wyndham Lewis

As a result of the feminist revolution, feminine becomes an abusive epithet.
Percy Wyndham Lewis

Epithet Translations

epithet in German is Beiwort

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