Epithets and Names

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Names and epithets are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Names" instead a noun "Epithets".

Names noun - Verbal abuse; a crude substitute for argument.

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Epithets and names are semantically related. You can use "Epithets" instead a noun "Names".

Luke Nounverber: The Sull all have names like this, though they're chosen epithets rather than family names.

Source: Literature / Sword of Shadows
Things get interesting when the characters don't know where they are so that the chapter names become vague epithets instead.

Source: Literature / Castle Perilous
This also gets bad in the Greek pantheon, where each deity has a wide range of different epithets, regional cult names, and poetic titles.

Source: I Have Many Names

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