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What is an allonym?

What is an allonym? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A pseudonym, (particularly) another person's name used as a pseudonym by the author of a work.
  2. (uncommon) An allonymous work: a book published under the name of a person other than its true author.
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It was clear that the name was an allonym, and it may be that the editor's choice of alias reflects his awareness of the legend where Hsu Sun had bestowed all his sacred texts to Shih Chen.
An alternative name for the performance was Dodola, which recalls not only Perkunas's allonym Dundulis, but Zeus's oak oracle at Dodona in Epirus.
In order to grasp who Dionysius was, it might be helpful to compare theonym and allonym at this point.
An example of a work written under an allonym is The Federalist, also known as The Federalist Papers.
Having met her in the Atlanta airport terminal, she only knew me under the alias Robert F. Conrad, an allonym I used on occasion.

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