"allonymy" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: allonymies [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|-|+}} allonymy (usually uncountable, plural allonymies)
  1. The use of allonyms. Tags: uncountable, usually
    Sense id: en-allonymy-en-noun-JTTpUPtD Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1961, Descriptive and Applied Linguistics - Volumes 1-5, page 35",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1986, Djelal Kadir, Questing Fictions: Latin America's Family Romance, page 43",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2000, Elena Rova, Patavina Orientalia Selecta, page 222",
          "text": "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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