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Definition of Pseudonymous
1. Adjective. Bearing or identified by an assumed (often pen) name. "The writings of Mark Twain are pseudonymous"
Definition of Pseudonymous
1. a. Bearing a false or fictitious name; as, a pseudonymous work.
Definition of Pseudonymous
1. Adjective. of or pertaining to a pseudonym ¹
2. Adjective. (context: of a name) fictitious ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pseudonymous
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pseudonymous
Literary usage of Pseudonymous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1873)
"... Capital,” have been omitted by the cataloguer, thus leading us into fresh
error, the book being catalogued as anonymous, whereas it is pseudonymous. ..."
2. The Doctrine of Sacred Scripture: A Critical, Historical, and Dogmatic by George Trumbull Ladd (1883)
"But serious as such a case may appear to be, we cannot a priori affirm that no
pseudonymous writing exists in the Canon of either the Old or the New ..."
3. History of the Canon of the Holy Scriptures in the Christian Church by Eduard Reuss (1884)
"It is proper here to remind my readers that in the second century there also
appeared a great number of pseudonymous books—ie, books falsely attributed to ..."
4. Aggravating Ladies: Being a List of Works Published Under the Pseudonym of by Ralph] [Thomas (1880)
"It is pseudonymous. We find advertised at the end by the same author : Bessie
Gray, or the dull child. Hymns for children on the Lord's Prayer, ..."
5. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Epistle of St. James by James Hardy Ropes (1916)
"... neither anything in the epistle itself nor the literary custom of the time
makes any difficulty in supposing it a pseudonymous religious tract. ..."
6. The Tübingen School and Its Antecedents: A Review of the History and Present by Robert William Mackay (1863)
"On the Causes of pseudonymous Writing. The wholesale falsification seemingly
implied in so abundant a crop of spurious literature as that indicated in the ..."
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