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epitheting

epitheting is the present participle and gerund of epithet.

Meaning of epithet

Verb

epithet (third-person singular simple present epithets, present participle epitheting, simple past and past participle epitheted)

  1. (transitive) To term; to refer to as.
    • He was epitheted "the king of fools".

See all 7 meanings of epithet

Questions about epitheting

What is epitheting the present participle and gerund of?
Epitheting is the present participle and gerund of epithet.

Words near epitheting in the dictionary

  1. epithetic
  2. epithetical
  3. epithetically
  4. epithetician
  5. epitheticians
  6. epitheting
  7. epithetise
  8. epithetised
  9. epithetises
  10. epithetising
  11. epithetism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: epitheting (page history and authors); epithet (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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