"euonymy" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From eu- + -onymy.",
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          "ref": "1998, Semiotica - Volume 122, page 121:",
          "text": "Daniels's coinage 'abjad' won't glister in the annals of euonymy, but I must use it here for clarity's sake.",
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          "ref": "1999, Plautus, Terence, & Deena Berg, Five Comedies: Miles Gloriosus, Menaechmi, Bacchides, Hecyra and Adelphoe, →ISBN:",
          "text": "He adopts for his names Greek words that either confirm the character (euonymy) or undercut him or her ironically (dysonymy), and sometimes lead to, or depend on, wordplay in the text.",
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          "ref": "2007, John Klima, Logorrhea: Good Words Make Good Stories, →ISBN, page 370:",
          "text": "Surrounded by names like those, it was little wonder that he'd found himself suited to a career in euonymy. If only there had turned out to be more naming and less strenuous diplomacy involved in the job, it would have been perfect.",
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        "The creation or use of self-descriptive names."
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