byname

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That byname, by the nature of DuVernay’s project, almost immediately comes to seem not merely inadequate but unjust.

From The New Yorker • May 30, 2019

The Resurrection Man - to use a byname of the period - was not to be deterred by any of the sanctities of customary piety.

From Tales and Fantasies by Stevenson, Robert Louis

This in allusion to the byname of "the vetoing Mayor of Buffalo" the people had given him on account of his systematic opposition to all extravagant expenditure when Governor of the State.

From Fragments of an Autobiography by Moscheles, Felix

It was not so; and the byname by which I went behind my back confirmed it.

From David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona by Stevenson, Robert Louis

To-name, tōō′-nām, n. a byname, nickname, or name in addition to Christian name and surname.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various