Examples of epithet

• 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.

• For this reason, an utterance containing a parenthetical or an epithet can be either true or false independently of the truth-conditions of the background proposition.

• Nevertheless, his harangue comes packaged in offensive epithets and unsympathetic decision-making.

• There were also other less charitable labels and epithets directed his way.

• These efforts have been maintained recently with a number of unpleasant and degrading epithets, 'bed -blockers' being the best of them.

• The epithet sinchroden 'adorned with treasure' (14a) that is used of the woman further identifies her as a member of the aristocracy.

• Thus, any account of presupposition and accommodation could be applied to the anaphoric use of epithets.

• In particular, it can easily account for the attributive feature of epithets.