• Pseudonymy

    Origin

    - + pseudo + -

    Full definition of pseudonymy

    Noun

    pseudonymy

    (uncountable)
    1. The use of a pseudonym.
      • 1976, Ludwig Bieler, ‎John Joseph O'Meara, ‎& Bernd Naumann, Latin Scripts and Letters A.D. 400-900, It is now well known that the Irish employed pseudonymy in their Latin writings of that period. Some famous examples are the Pseudo-Augustinian De Mirabilibus Sacrae Scripturae, the Pseudo-Isidorian De Ordine Creaturarum, and the Cosmographia of the so-called "Aethicus Ister", ascribed by H. Löwe to Vergil (Fergil), an eigth-century Irish bishop of Salzburg.
      • 1987, Mary Ellen Waithe, A History of Women Philosophers - Volume 1, The consequences of accepting the pseudonymy hypothesis are similar to those of accepting the forgery hypothesis.
      • 2003, David L. Eng & ‎David Kazanjian, Loss: The Politics of Mourning, Pseudonymy, as a modern institution, can thus be contrasted to the mere anonymity of the copyist.
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