Antonomasia

He blithely absolves this libel as an example of "antonomasia" ( "the use of a proper name to express a general idea," OED), saying rather too airily that in this instance he meant a "Pat Boone-type" to imply any crooner of the well-scrubbed variety. ❋ Dunne, John Gregory (1983)

It is not for Mr. Buckley to admit to an inattentive memory and careless writing when the polysyllabic evasion of "antonomasia" is available. ❋ Dunne, John Gregory (1983)

Alma: ¡Profe, a mi, por antonomasia me debe tocar el azul! ❋ Enelmundo (2003)

More or less by antonomasia, an erudite word that I met only many years after and learned the meaning of ... ❋ Unknown (1998)

Garibaldi was always or almost always victorious (in reality he fought brilliant guerrilla skirmishes which piety later turned into vast and tidy battles); he was the first to be called Il Duce, a pompous nineteenth-century opera libretto title, by antonomasia (Mussolini had been called Il Duce by his socialist followers before 1914 and took the title with him to the Fascist party). ❋ Barzini, Luigi (1974)

By antonomasia, the word has come to designate also the good work itself, in so far as it deserves a reward from the person in whose service it was performed. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

These, by the extension of the generic term to specifically designate a new subdivision, are, by antonomasia, called gratuitously given graces ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Nestorians call the Bishop of Mopsuestia, by antonomasia, the ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

‘IN Florence, a rich and famous city of Italy, in the province called Tuscany, there dwelt two rich and principal gentlemen called Anselmo and Lothario, which two were so great friends, as they were named for excellency, and by antonomasia, by all those that knew them, the Two Friends. ❋ Unknown (1909)

What is generally called art, by antonomasia, collects intuitions that are wider and more complex than those which we generally experience, but these intuitions are always of sensations and impressions. ❋ Benedetto Croce (1909)

To be a Chueta, to spring from the street of the Silversmiths, which by antonomasia is called "the street," is the greatest disgrace which can happen to a Majorcan. ❋ Vicente Blasco Ib����ez (1897)

By antonomasia proper names may become general terms, as if we say _'A ❋ Carveth Read (1889)

O.S.A. [98] _Ordinarios_: an appellation of ecclesiastical judges who try causes in the first instance, and, by antonomasia, of the bishops themselves, regarded as judges in their respective dioceses ❋ Emma Helen Blair (1884)

Per me è stato un evento davvero unico, tanto per le sessioni quanto per il fatto che è "l'occasione" per antonomasia per incontrarci tutti (o quasi) insieme. ❋ Unknown (2008)

[the Bard] for [Shakespeare] is an [example] of antonomasia ❋ SonicLover8000 (2017)