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What does antonomasia mean?

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Noun
  1. (rhetoric) The substitution of an epithet or title in place of a proper noun
  2. (rhetoric) Use of a proper name to suggest its most obvious quality or aspect.
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But it is nice that Rubin regrets the end of the series, even if he rejects my antonomasia.
One was antonomasia, the usually derisive practice of describing an individual by a certain characteristic, then making it into a proper noun.
Another type of antonomasia we meet when a common noun is still clearly perceived as a proper name.
Antonomasia is, then, a kind of theft, but one that reveals the thievery involved in the original act of naming.
To great reason the realization of the presence of the Cathedral on Internet, admirable revolution of the to human know, represents a meaningful step for the history of the Sacred building for antonomasia of my adored Naples.
Jesus is vocation par excellence, the Chosen One by antonomasia.

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