epithet

• The orthography of this much-used epithet, which is not given, we believe, in any English or American work, was communicated to M. Philarčte {261} Charles by one of the best-informed men of that province Le mot Yankee, appliqué aujourd'hui comme sobriquet aux populations agricoles et commerçantes du nord, n'est autre que le mot English transformé par la prononciation défectueuse des indigčnes du Massachusets: Yenghis_, Yanghis_, Yankies_. —  Notes and Queries, Number 75, April 5, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
• By this epithet, also, he is spoken of by the poet Wordsworth, in the "Excursion And him, the Wonderful Our simple shepherds, speaking from the heart Deservedly have styled He lived and died in the lake country of England, near the residence of Wordsworth, who has embalmed him in verse, and described him in prose. —  Captains of Industry or, Men of Business Who Did Something Besides Making Money
• To turn a private name into a public epithet is a thing given to few: but the word "Gilbertian" will probably last longer than the name Gilbert It meant a real Victorian talent; that of exploding unexpectedly and almost, as it seemed, unintentionally. —  The Victorian Age in Literature
• Here the epithet is strangely transferred to Apollo's servant LVII. —  The Aeneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor
• Fortune had willed it that I should see as many--perhaps more--cities and manners of men as Ulysses; and I have observed one general fact, and that is, that the adjectival epithet which is prefixt to all the virtues is invariably the epithet which geographically describes the country that I am in. —  Model Speeches for Practise

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