"caconymy" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1885, Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, page 285",
          "text": "...the relative advantages of any pair of characters may be discussed irrespective of my personal belief that names such as are described in the first column are, as a rule, euonyms, while caconymy summarizes the attributes enumerated in the second.",
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          "ref": "2013, J Vlčková, “Social identity and its reflection in communication: Jimmie Blacksmith in Thomas Keneally's novel The chant of Jimmie Blacksmith”, in Brno studies in English",
          "text": "\"Old sow\" in (15) is not derogative, it is a caconymy and indicates close relationship to which Jimmie reacts by saying not only how his mother is but also mentions other members of his family (16).",
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        "The use of a caconym."
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          "ref": "1885, Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, page 285",
          "text": "...the relative advantages of any pair of characters may be discussed irrespective of my personal belief that names such as are described in the first column are, as a rule, euonyms, while caconymy summarizes the attributes enumerated in the second.",
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          "text": "\"Old sow\" in (15) is not derogative, it is a caconymy and indicates close relationship to which Jimmie reacts by saying not only how his mother is but also mentions other members of his family (16).",
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