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Definition of Allonym
1. n. The name of another person assumed by the author of a work.
Definition of Allonym
1. Noun. the name of another person taken by an author as a pen name. Compare pseudonym. ¹
2. Noun. a work published under a name that is not that of the author. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Allonym
1. the name of one person assumed by another [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Allonym
Literary usage of Allonym
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Author's & Printer's Dictionary: A Guide for Authors by Frederick Howard Collins (1912)
"allonym*, a pseudonym. allot/*, -table*, -ted*, -ting*. all' ottava (mus.), an
octave higher than written ; abbr. all' ott. all right, not alright, ..."
2. The Library Manual: A Guide to the Formation of a Library, and the Valuation by John Herbert Slater (1892)
"allonym. — A false proper name. A work published to deceive, under the name of
some author, but not by him, as " Peter Parley's Annual." Almanack Day. ..."
3. Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Proximate by Alfred Henry Allen (1898)
"Three other species of Maranta are recognised, namely, M. allonym and M. nobilis,
which grow in the West Indies, and M. ramosissima, a native of the East ..."
4. A Handy-book about Books: For Book-lovers, Book-buyers, and Book-sellers by John Power (1870)
"... words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals.—Boag.
See Wheatley, Of Anagrams, p. 23, and N. <§•> Q., s. n, v. viii, p. 412. allonym ..."
5. The American Bibliopolist (1874)
"... succeeding each other, or at short intervals.—BOAG. See Wheatley's Of Anagrams,
p. 23, and Notes and Queries, 2d Series, Vol. vin, p. 412. allonym ..."
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