Both Uses of
epithet
in
Jane Eyre
- Too often she betrayed this, by the undue vent she gave to a spiteful antipathy she had conceived against little Adele: pushing her away with some contumelious epithet if she happened to approach her; sometimes ordering her from the room, and always treating her with coldness and acrimony.†
p. 216.2 *
- You missed your epithet.†
p. 433.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(epithet as in: racial epithet) an insulting or abusive word or phrase
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(2)
(epithet as in: earned the epithet, "The Great") a descriptor added to a person's name -- as in Alexander The Great
or:
a phrase used in place of a name or word -- such as: The Big Apple for New York, The Great Emancipator for Abraham Lincoln, or man's best friend for dog