Example sentences for: onomastics

How can you use “onomastics” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • There are no departments of toponymy, or even of onomastics that I know of, and no degrees are awarded in these fields.

  • Yet these elements seem to be more related to onomastics than those she has described in this paper and therefore make the reader anxious to know more.

  • Onomastics is basically the science of worrying about names and Monsieur Tesnières--an appellation, as it happens, regrettably free of all sexual or scatological interest--is much exercised by the fact that three centuries from now 97 per cent of all French family names will have vanished, with only 7500 surviving out of the estimated present stock of 250,000.

  • II. The editor introduces this section— Names in Literature—by stating the purpose of it, namely, which is to ask if the study of imaginary personages and places does not properly belong to onomastics. (p. 127.)

  • It isn't clear to this reviewer just what place the Litt article, Self-Naming and Self-Defining in Subscriptions to Familiar Letters in the English Renaissance, is supposed to have in onomastics.


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