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- noun Plural form of
agnomen .
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Examples
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These DASANAMIS or ten agnomens include the GIRI (mountain), to which Sri Yukteswar, and hence myself, belong.
Autobiography of a Yogi Yogananda, Paramhansa, 1893-1952 1935
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These DASANAMIS or ten agnomens include the GIRI (mountain), to which Sri Yukteswar, and hence myself, belong.
Autobiography of a Yogi Paramahansa Yogananda 1922
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Geraldine was an admirable mimic; that she could draw or speak caricatures; that she was also wonderfully happy in the invention of agnomens and cognomens, so applicable to the persons, that they could scarcely be forgotten or forgiven.
Tales and Novels — Volume 04 Maria Edgeworth 1808
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Volpi additionally insists on saddling cities and walk-on historical personages with weird, mock comic agnomens: Moscow is not Moscow but "Moscow, that city of wide avenues."
NYT > Home Page By TOM BISSELL 2010
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Volpi additionally insists on saddling cities and walk-on historical personages with weird, mock comic agnomens: Moscow is not Moscow but "Moscow, that city of wide avenues."
NYT > Home Page By TOM BISSELL 2009
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