Words similar to eponymous
Example sentences for: eponymous
How can you use “eponymous” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Funk dismisses Queen Elizabeth I and Betsy Ross as possible eponymous sources and concludes, “It is much more likely to have been derived in some way from the frontiersman's rifle or gun which, for some unknown reason, he always fondly called Betsy.
An eponymous verb derived from the name O.J.
in the dual role of the overweening 17 th century boy king Louis of France and his twin brother, Philippe, who was first spirited away at birth by a father fearful of internecine struggles and subsequently locked in the bowels of the Bastille, his features concealed by the eponymous iron mask.
"I think that giant American corporations should start asking themselves if the things they make are really, I mean really, better than the ordinary," the eponymous Mr. Peterman avers on his catalog's first page, under the heading "Philosophy."
Masochism comes from the name of the demented 19 th -century novelist Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, who described the relevant eponymous practices in his writings.