Hume himself speaks of them as names adopted by converts, evidently unaware that these sobriquetswere all but invariably affixed at the font.
They manifestly did not suppose their sobriquets would be any bar to preferment.
Many of these sobriquets had become popular among the unthinking and careless.
Among Joan's sobriquets was Jutt, which is believed to have been "a nickname surely!
Among the appellations of ancient Ireland was Muc Inis,[266] or Hog Island and Moccus, or the pig, was one of the Celtic sobriquets for Mercury.
From the day of the Reformation the out-of-the-way sobriquets of the Bible came into favour.
I intend to take in only such sobriquets as were affixed upon individuals by their neighbours to express some physical or mental peculiarity, complimentary or the reverse, whether given in jest or earnest.
They are of advantage as showing how easily and even naturally sobriquets of this class fix themselves upon the bearers, and how readily they are accepted by the same.
He answered to whatever names and sobriquets they gave him.
I understand Mr. Haddon to mean that these names were sobriquets given from without and accepted.
In Social Origins I ventured a guess as to how the group names first arose, namely, in sobriquets given by group to group.
A curious new example of totems, certainly based on sobriquets not derived from animals, occurs among the Warramanga tribe of Central Australia.
These sobriquets of non-eaters are probably totemic: the Deer kin does not eat deer, nor does the Crane kin eat cranes, and so on.
In the following letter, which I owe to the kindness of Mr. Duncan Robertson, we read that, in Orkney and Shetland, localsobriquets are derived from what the people are alleged to eat.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sobriquets" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
