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onymous
World English Dictionary
onymous
(ˈɒnɪməs)
—
adj
(of a book) bearing its author's name
[C18: back formation from
anonymous
]
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
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Word Origin & History
onymous
1775, coined to provide an opposite of
anonymous
.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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