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- noun Plural form of
pseudonym .
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Im trying ot think of a writerly equivalent and I guess pseudonyms is the closest.
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The use of pseudonyms is as old as rhetoric, and has served to promote a freedom of speech that we hold dear if we value the free exchange of ideas.
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Just as partisan men borrowed their pseudonyms from the revolutionary period, women also adopted the names of inspiring national icons.
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008
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Because of this, Kierkegaard's work is sometimes characterized as pseudonyms, which would often comment on and critique the works of his other pseudo-authors, it can be exceedingly difficult to distinguish between what Kierkegaard truly believed and what he was merely arguing for as part of a pseudo-author's position.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] Ro Thorpe 2009
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(The ostensible reason for using pseudonyms is that readers need to distinguish the various types of books written by a single author; Mertz writes nonfiction on archaeology, Michaels writes thrillers, many with a supernatural element, and Peters focuses on mystery suspense.
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(Dibdin's eagerness to hint at how many aristocrats he knowsor, better still, his habit of only half-revealing their identities, in pseudonyms decipherable only by the cognoscentican make The
"Wedded to Books': Bibliomania and the Romantic Essayists 2004
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Any “real names” on the net generally are simply two word pseudonyms, for all we of the internet know.
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One of the pseudonyms was a name that strongly resembled the name of one of the executives of Telenor's PR firm, the perpetrators apparently adding insult to injury.
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One could do something like that by clearly revealing that the pseudonyms are your fictional characters.
Archive 2007-06-01 Ann Althouse 2007
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Because I love the idea of pseudonyms and nom-de-plums, I thought it would be interesting to create a fictional identity for the founder of MZR.
DC's 2008
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