pseudonymous

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  1. Bearing a pseudonym, or false name: applied to an author who publishes a work under a false or feigned name, or to a work thus published. In the primitive age of publication, before there existed “a reading public,” literary productions were often anonymous; or … they wore the mask of a fictitious name, and were pseudonymous. I. D'Israeli, Amen. of Lit., II. 346.

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  • Rationales are provided even for a pseudonymous blog.
  • Write to us at: Dell Magazines Fiction Group, Dept. NS, 6 Prowitt St., Norwalk, CT, 06855-1220 Back to Table of Contents DEPARTMENT OF FIRST STORIES: SKIN DEEP by Renée Yim The following tale belongs to our Department of First Stories as the pseudonymous 29-year-old writer's first work of fiction ever to see print in any language. —  EQMM,July2007
  • I could have linked to it yesterday, but didn't, since at that point it was only fodder for a pseudonymous diarist at the Daily Kos. —  Media Nation
  • All I meant was that I extend to each and every other poster - whether pseudonymous or not - the courtesy of evaluating them on the basis of the content of their postings and not on their "handle", just as I would expect to be judged. —  Capitol Hill Blue - The oldest political news site on the Internet
  • The data is not anonymous but pseudonymous: stored against a pseudonym as a basic means of protecting the individual? —  BBC Blog Network
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  1. from Greek ψευδώνυμος, having a false name: see pseudonym.
 

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