Meaning of allonymy | Babel Free

Definitions

The use of allonyms.

uncountable, usually

Examples

“Allonymy, I think⟳, should be distinguished from the ordinary indirect naming in that the former presupposes a habitual avoidance of the proper name⟳ of the person designated, as this is indeed already implied in the descriptions of Tylor and Winick.”

“The signatures appended to that story change⟳ and multiply⟳, but only as allographs — the ghostly amanuensis displaced by his protean signature, an allonymy which screens out the aleatory signators by substituting itself in their vacated place⟳.”

“Recent archaeological and epigraphic discoveries at the site of Tell⟳ Shiukh Fawqani in the Tishrin region" allow⟳ us to add⟳ a case of natural allonymy to the institutional allonymies already quoted for the Upper Syrian Euphrates.”

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