agnomination
nounEtymology From Latin agnominatio.
1
Rhetoric A paronomasia, or allusion of one word to another
2
Rhetoric An alliteration.
3
Rhetoric polyptoton.
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Rhetoric Assigning to a proper name its literal or homophonic meaning.
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