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pseudepigraphon

pseudepigraphon is the singular of pseudepigrapha.

Meaning of pseudepigrapha

Noun

pseudepigrapha pl (normally plural, singular pseudepigraphon or pseudepigraph)

  1. (plural, plural-normally) Writings falsely ascribed to famous persons (historical or mythical) to lend them greater legitimacy, typically composed many centuries after the ostensible author's death.
    • The Jewish pseudepigrapha bear the names of Old Testament patriarchs, kings, or prophets.1906, Henry Barclay Swete, “Authorship”, in The Apocalypse of St. John: the Greek text with introd., notes and indices, Macmillan, page clxx

Forms of pseudepigraphon

pluralpseudepigrapha

Questions about pseudepigraphon

What is pseudepigraphon the singular of?
Pseudepigraphon is the singular of pseudepigrapha.

Words near pseudepigraphon in the dictionary

  1. pseudepigrapha
  2. pseudepigraphal
  3. pseudepigraphic
  4. pseudepigraphical
  5. pseudepigraphies
  6. pseudepigraphon
  7. pseudepigraphous
  8. pseudepigraphs
  9. pseudepigraphy
  10. pseudergate
  11. pseudergates

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pseudepigraphon (page history and authors); pseudepigrapha (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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