epithet
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Epithet inflation has diminished “great” somewhat so we have to be careful.
From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2012
Epithet too easily used which assailed unanimously the appearance of "Interpretation of Dreams" by Freud, psychologic document which is and always will remain in spite of all the most important and sensational of our epoch.
From Time Magazine Archive
Epithet Potbellied Sirs: Naturally, if you are not potbellied, the epithet rolls off you like water from a duck's back.
From Time Magazine Archive
He adds an Epithet to Pelion which very much swells the Idea, by bringing up to the Reader's Imagination all the Woods that grew upon it.
From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Addison, Joseph
I think Foster will do me good,—'On the Epithet Romantic.'
From Memoir of Mary L. Ware, Wife of Henry Ware, Jr. by Hall, Edward B.
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