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ANTONOMASIA

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 151 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ANTONOMASIA , in See also:

rhetoric, the See also:Greek See also:term for a substitution of any epithet or phrase for a proper name; as " Pelides," or " the son of See also:Peleus," for See also:Achilles; " the Stagirite " for See also:Aristotle; " the author of See also:Paradise Lost " for See also:Milton; " the little See also:corporal " for See also:Napoleon I.; " See also:Macedonia's madman " for See also:Alexander the See also:Great, &c. &c. The opposite substitution of a proper name for some generic term is also sometimes called antonomasia; as " a See also:Cicero " for an orator.

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