0 an adjective added to a person's name or a phrase used instead of it, usually to criticize or praise them:
1 a word or phrase used to describe someone, often as an insult:
a racial epithet
His stubbornness earned him the epithet “Senator No.”
In sum, while quasi-indicators are intrinsically opaque, epithets are intrinsically transparent.
Nonhuman-animal epithets insult humans by invoking contempt for other species: rat, worm, viper, goose.
What interests us is whether these epithets, in addition to their obvious socioreligious significance, can also be seen as indicators of economic status.
A third method was rhetorically to use epithets that were appropriate to a deity, thus associating with the divine being.
An epithet often manifests itself under the guise of a (definite) description that modifies a singular term to form a compound noun phrase.
Most derivations of specific epithets that describe certain characteristics of the plant are surprisingly easy to trace.
Here he includes epithets, certain attributive adjectives, and honorifics.
I shall show how epithets are best understood if analyzed alongside quasi-indicators.
