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List Of People Known As The Just
The Just is an epithet that may refer to: People * Aristides (530 BC-468 BC), Athenian statesman * Casimir II the Just (1138–1194), Duke of Wiślica, Duke of Sandomierz, Duke of Kraków and High Duke of Poland * Childebert III (670 or probably 683–711), King of the Franks * Diarmaid the Just (died 542), Irish abbot and saint * Ferdinand I of Aragon (1380–1416), King of Aragon, Valencia, Majorca, Sardinia and (nominally) Corsica, and King of Sicily * Harun al-Rashid (763 or 766-809), 5th Caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate, Abbasid Caliph in Ar-Raqqah * James II of Aragon (1267–1327), King of Sicily (as James I), King of Aragon and Valencia, Count of Barcelona, King of Sardinia and Corsica * Khosrow I (died 579), also known as Anushiravan the Just, twentieth Sassanid Emperor (Great King) of Persia * Louis XIII (1601–1643), King of France and Navarre * Matthias Corvinus (1443–1490), King of Hungary and Croatia, King of Bohemia, and Duke of Austria * Menander II (fl. 90†... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Epithet
An epithet (, ), also byname, is a descriptive term (word or phrase) known for accompanying or occurring in place of a name and having entered common usage. It has various shades of meaning when applied to seemingly real or fictitious people, divinities, objects, and binomial nomenclature. It can also be a descriptive title: for example, Pallas Athena, Phoebus Apollo, Alfred the Great, Suleiman the Magnificent, and Władysław I the Elbow-high. Many English monarchs have traditional epithets: some of the best known are Edward the Confessor, William the Conqueror, Richard the Lionheart, Æthelred the Unready, John Lackland and Bloody Mary. The word ''epithet'' can also refer to an abusive, defamatory, or derogatory phrase. This use as a euphemism is criticized by Martin Manser and other proponents of linguistic prescription. H. W. Fowler complained that "epithet is suffering a vulgarization that is giving it an abusive imputation." Linguistics Epithets are sometimes at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |