literal theonymy
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The naming of a person with a divine name, such as the use of Jesus as a given name in Mexico and Central America.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "When H[ans] Meyersahm, in a dissertation of 1891, studied literal theonymy, the giving to humans of unadjusted divine names, he felt able to declare that the practice first emerged in the first century ad."
- "There are a few instances of mortals called Artemis or Hermes, but such literal theonymy is relatively rare, and mostly dates from the first century ad or later."
- "As is evident from Fig. 8, female theophoric names on Artemi- are quite uncommon and literal theonymy, where the personal name is same as the name of the deity, is extremely rare."