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What is the noun for epithets?

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epithet
  1. A term used to characterize a person or thing.
  2. A term used as a descriptive substitute for the name or title of a person.
  3. One of many formulaic words or phrases used in Iliad and the Odyssey to characterize a person, a group of people, or a thing.
  4. An abusive or contemptuous word or phrase.
  5. (taxonomy) A word in the scientific name of a taxon following the name of the genus or species. This applies only to formal names of plants, fungi and bacteria. In formal names of animals the corresponding term is the specific name.
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  7. Examples:
    1. “King Richard I was known by the epithet Richard the Lion-Hearted.”
      “He heaped upon him every scornful epithet. All this Hamilton bore with patience.”
      “Wright uttered an epithet at Markovich, and the latter countered by ordering Wright out of the office and escorting him off the property.”
epithesis
  1. (linguistics) The addition of a letter or sound at the end of a word, without changing its meaning, as in "numb" for "num" or "whilst" for "whiles".
  2. (medicine) The surgical correction of deformity or of crooked limbs.
  3. (medicine) A splint or other appliance to be worn.
epitheses
  1. plural of epithesis
epithets
  1. plural of epithet
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Forms of address, epithets, and pronoun references that signal service and status, then clashes of rank, also get interwoven.”
      “He shrieks where he should argue, and hurls vulgar epithets in my direction.”
      “Family names are arranged alphabetically beneath the divisions, and within each family the generic names and epithets are also alphabetized.”
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