Sentence examples for an epithet of from inspiring English sources

The sect takes its name from Pashupati, an epithet of Shiva meaning "lord" (pati) of "cattle" (pashus).

The Vedas speak of the mysterious, uncanny god Rudra ("the Howler"), whose name later became an epithet of Shiva ("Auspicious One").

"Machiavellian" has never been an epithet of praise; indeed, one of the villains of the play Henry VI, by William Shakespeare, claims to surpass "murtherous Machevil".

For the left, anti-government conspiracy theories have proven a double-edged sword: the conspiratorial bent that swept much of the New Left in the late 1960s and early 1970s, which treated government as part of "the man" and made "liberal" an epithet of contempt, tore the Democratic Party apart for a generation.

There is a great deal of later literature, all poetry, in Apabhraṃśa, for the most part Jaina works—e.g., Paumacariu (8th 9th century; "The Life of Pauma" [Pauma is an epithet of Rāmā]) of Svayambhū, Harivaṃśapurāṇa (10th century; "Genealogy of Hari [Vishnu]") of Puṣpadanta, and Sanatkumāracariu of Haribhadra (12th century).

The word came to be used metonymically for the Egyptian king under the New Kingdom (starting in the 18th dynasty, 1539 1292 bce), and by the 22nd dynasty (c. 945 c. 730 bce) it had been adopted as an epithet of respect.

Today it's spit out as an epithet for a culture of greed and corruption.

Bhandarkar explains this paradox, proposing that Panduranga may be an epithet for the form of Shiva worshipped in Pandharpur, and whose temple still stands.

"You should go," she said, "but don't volunteer us for the" scutwork — though she substituted an epithet for the first part of that last word.

Instead of devising a policy toward North Korea, Mr. Bush devised an epithet: "the axis of evil".

But in 1984, "nerd" was still an epithet when Revenge of the Nerds let the little guys -- the Tri-Lambs of Adams College -- win in their battle for respect and equality (and panties).