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: --
His stubbornness earned him the epithet “Senator No.”
a racial epithet
In particular, it can easily account for the attributive feature of epithets.
Thus, any account of presupposition and accommodation could be applied to the anaphoric use of epithets.
The epithet sinchroden 'adorned with treasure' (14a) that is used of the woman further identifies her as a member of the aristocracy.
These efforts have been maintained recently with a number of unpleasant and degrading epithets, 'bed -blockers' being the best of them.
There were also other less charitable labels and epithets directed his way.
Nevertheless, his harangue comes packaged in offensive epithets and unsympathetic decision-making.
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.
I shall show how epithets are best understood if analyzed alongside quasi-indicators.
