Adjective:

கற்பனைப் பெயர் கொண்ட,

pseudonymous's Usage Examples:

Moreover, the chief ground for the development of a pseudonymous literature was absent in the early Christian church.

Moreover, there was a sense in which such books were not wholly pseudonymous.

The chief ground for resorting to pseudonymous authorship in Judaism was that the belief in prophecy was lost among the people.

Hence we conclude that the grounds are lacking which would entitle our assuming a priori that the Apocalypse is pseudonymous.

ARISTEAS, the pseudonymous author of a famous Letter in which is described, in legendary form, the origin of the Greek translation of the Old Testament known as the Septuagint.

An adequate monograph on ancient pseudonymous literature remains to be written; meantime, further reference may be made to the older essays of Mosheim (Dissertatio de caussis suppositorum librorum inter Christianos saeculi primi et secundi, 1 733); Bentley's Dissertation on Phalaris, pp.

All the Jewish apocalypses are pseudonymous, and all the Christian with the exception of the Shepherd of Hermas.

The superscription, if original, compels us to treat the whole writing as not only late but pseudonymous.

It seems on the whole most probable that 2 Peter is not a genuine work, but that it came from the same factory of pseudonymous Petrine writings as the Apocalypse which bears the same name, though the one has, and the other has not, obtained a place within the Canon.

Each fresh apocalypse would in the eyes of its writer be in some degree but a fresh edition of the traditions naturally attaching themselves to great names in Israel's past, and thus the books named respectively Enoch, Noah, Ezra would to some slight extent be not pseudonymous.

Synonyms:

onymous,

Antonyms:

anon., anonymous,