allonymy

plural allonymies

1. uncountableusuallyThe use of allonyms.

   Recent archaeological and epigraphic discoveries at the site of Tell Shiukh Fawqani in the Tishrin region" allow us to add a case of natural allonymy to the institutional allonymies already quoted for the Upper Syrian Euphrates.

   2000, Elena Rova, Patavina Orientalia Selecta, page 222

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   Allonymy, I think, should be distinguished from the ordinary indirect naming in that the former presupposes a habitual avoidance of the proper name of the person designated, as this is indeed already implied in the descriptions of Tylor and Winick.

   1961, Descriptive and Applied Linguistics - Volumes 1-5, page 35

   The signatures appended to that story change and multiply, but only as allographs — the ghostly amanuensis displaced by his protean signature, an allonymy which screens out the aleatory signators by substituting itself in their vacated place.

   1986, Djelal Kadir, Questing Fictions: Latin America's Family Romance, →ISBN, page 43