epitheton

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epitheton

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Learned borrowing from Latin epitheton. Doublet of epithet.

noun epithetons · epitheta

archaic, rare An epithet, an attribute of a person or thing. The next moꝛnyng the xj. of Iuly, Palmer was required to ſubſcribe to certayne Articles, whiche they had dꝛawen out, touchyng the cauſe of his condemnation: in the front wherof, were packt together many haynous termes, as hoꝛrible, heretical, damnable, deuiliſh, and execrable doctrine. […] Palmer. A

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@misc{epitheton_2026,
  title = {epitheton},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/epitheton},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}