English

Noun

allonymy ‎(countable and uncountable, plural allonymies)

1. The use of allonyms.
   • 1961, Descriptive and Applied Linguistics - Volumes 1-5, page 35:

     Allonymy, I think, should be distinguished from the ordinary indirect naming in that the former presupposes a habitual avoidance of the proper name of the person designated, as this is indeed already implied in the descriptions of Tylor and Winick.

   • 1986, Djelal Kadir, Questing Fictions: Latin America's Family Romance, ISBN 0816615160, page 43:

     The signatures appended to that story change and multiply, but only as allographs — the ghostly amanuensis displaced by his protean signature, an allonymy which screens out the aleatory signators by substituting itself in their vacated place.

   • 2000, Elena Rova, Patavina Orientalia Selecta, page 222:

     Recent archaeological and epigraphic discoveries at the site of Tell Shiukh Fawqani in the Tishrin region" allow us to add a case of natural allonymy to the institutional allonymies already quoted for the Upper Syrian Euphrates.