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Sentences with antonomasia

an·to·no·ma·sia
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  • He is a Daniel come to judgment
  • Here we deal with a case of antonomasia of the first type.
  • 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.
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