-
variety of
epithets that they can
employ that have
different meanings. The most
common are
fixed epithets and
transferred epithets. A
fixed epithet is the...
- Look up slur or
epithet in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The
following is a list of
ethnic slurs, ethnophaulisms, or
ethnic epithets that are, or have...
- The
numerous epithets of
Jupiter indicate the
importance and
variety of the god's
functions in
ancient Roman religion. Jupiter's most
ancient attested...
- This list of
ethnic slurs and
epithets is
sorted into
categories that can
defined by race, ethnicity, or nationality. Most of
these black slurs and all...
-
Democrat Party is an
epithet and
pejorative for the
Democratic Party of the
United States,
often used in a
disparaging fashion by the party's opponents...
- An
animal epithet is a name used to
label a
person or group, by ****ociation with some
perceived quality of an animal.
Epithets may be
formulated as similes...
- the Śivadharma literature, the
Sanskrit epics, and the Purāṇas.
Those epithets come to be the
primary names of the deity. The
president of the Ramakrishna...
- used as a
family emblem.
Plant epithets may be pejorative, used
humorously and
sometimes offensively. Some
plant epithets are used
directly as insults,...
-
characteristic of Homer's
style is the use of
epithets, as in "rosy-fingered" Dawn or "swift-footed" Achilles.
Epithets are used
because of the
constraints of...
- In some cases, her
individual epithets eventually developed into
separate deities. In
ancient Mesopotamia,
epithets could either be used
alongside the...
