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- King Richard I of England was given the very laudatory epithet "the Lion-Hearted"
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- the school has a strict ban against the use of offensive epithets
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“Epithet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/epithet. Accessed 17 May. 2022.
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The first known use of epithet was in 1579
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