epithet
noun
any word or phrase applied to a person or thing to describe an actual or attributed quality.
epithetical
-
a word derived from
epithet.
Example Sentences
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The Savage Mind, by the way, is an extraorinary work, despite its epithetical title.
From New York Times ● Feb. 6, 2018
He simply presents his case and lets readers draw the obvious and epithetical conclusion.
From Time Magazine Archive
It there designates a soft-brained boy; one who is lacking in intellect, or, as a correspondent observes, "an epithetical fool."
From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall
Though Shakespeare bears away the prize among these epithetical allotments, I suspect that his immortality—here positively assigned to him—was owing to the honour of the recent edition by Rowe.
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli
