Word Finder - anonymous

definition

Lacking a name; not named, for example an animal not assigned to any species.

synonyms

• nameless

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Without any name acknowledged of a person responsible

example

an anonymous pamphlet

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Of unknown name; whose name is withheld

example

No customer personal data will be retained unless it is rendered anonymous.

synonyms

• unidentified
• unknown
• unnamed

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Lacking individuality.

example

an anonymous office block in a soulless industrial estate

synonyms

• faceless

They think they are anonymous on the web but I can trace them all.

I have an anonymous tip.

There's been some anonymous phone calls over Billy Langstrom's death.

Galloway was a voluminous, though, for the most part, an anonymous writer.

Would you contribute your anonymous location to a traffic speed optimization engine?

But that has nothing to do with the anonymous sharing of data.

Of these the earliest were Watson's Apology (1776), Salisbury's Strictures (1776) and Chelsum's (anonymous) Remarks (1776).

Margolis discusses the anonymous Greek version of Habakkuk iii.

He executed the first book in French; it was read (in 1767), as an anonymous production, before a literary society of foreigners in London, and condemned.

There was the Cece Baldwin busi­ness—you were a tad too pleased I discovered your anonymous thousand-dollar present to her.

Say we saw it happen but we want to remain anonymous.

The authorship of an anonymous work, Squitinio della libertd Veneta, published at Mirandola in 1612, has been attributed to him.

You can honestly say they are anonymous.

Their writings, like those of the apostles, are epistolary; but editions of the apostolic fathers now usually admit also the early Church order known as the Didache, the allegory entitled the Shepherd, and a short anonymous apology addressed to one Diognetus.

An anonymous Conservative caught at the scheme in another pamphlet, proposing income as a test.

Muller brought out at Nuremberg a German translation of the Systema Naturae, completing it in 1776 by a Supplement containing a list of animals thus described, which had hitherto been technically anonymous, with diagnoses and names on the Linnaean model.

Besides the State papers, the main sources for his biography are The Life and Death of that renowned John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester (London, 1655), by an anonymous writer, the best edition being that of Van Ortroy (Brussels, 1893) Bridgett's Life of Blessed John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester (London, 1880 and 1890); and Thureau, Le bienheureux Jean Fisher (Paris, 1907).

The Continuatio was carried on, after his death, by an anonymous writer to the year 1380.

We could use your help on how we remain anonymous.

In 1872 the anonymous publication of Supernatural Religion created considerable sensation.

Like Jean Hardouin he got to believe that a great deal of what is called classical literature was compiled by anonymous authors at a much later date, and he used frequently to startle his colleagues, the Gustavian academicians, by his audacious paradoxes.

In the violent controversy that ensued he wrote many pamphlets, often anonymous, and frequently not in the best of taste.

His earliest publication, the anonymous pamphlet of The Pentland Rising, had appeared in 1866, and The Charity Bazaar, a trifle in which his future manner is happily displayed, in 1868.

Three anonymous Latin lives were published by Colgan in his Trias Thaumaturga (Louvain, 1645), and there exists an 1 ith-century Irish life in three parts published by Whitley Stokes for the Rolls series (1887).

Amongst the earliest Latin works that claim attention are the " Chronicle " (Gesta Hungarorum), by the " anonymous notary " of King Bela, probably Bela II.

This is a history in four books, the material for which was mainly drawn from the anonymous Gesta Francorum, but some valuable information has been added by Baudry.

But no attention was to be paid to anonymous charges.

On the other hand, there are the curious and puzzling catalogues of Aristotelian books, one given by Diogenes Laertius, another by an anonymous commentator (perhaps Hesychius of Miletus) quoted in the notes of Gilles Menage on Diogenes Laertius, and known as " Anonymus Menagii," and a third copied by two Arabian writers from Ptolemy, perhaps King Ptolemy Philadelphus, son of the founder of the library at Alexandria.

His first published work was an anonymous Life of Lord Chatham (1783).

Many boards allow anonymous users to post.

In 1599, when there was a prospect of a disputed succession, the anonymous Life by Ro.

Anonymous gold coins, resembling Frankish trientes in type and standard (21 grains), are also fairly common, though they must have passed out of use very early, as the laws give no hint of their existence.

It is to be observed that with the exception of Burgred's coins and a few anonymous pieces the silver was never adulterated.

See the anonymous The Croatian Revolution of the Year 1848 (Croat.), Agram, 1898.

It was translated into French by Morellet in 1766, and published with an anonymous commentary by Voltaire.

Dr Muir was also the author of a volume of Metrical Translations from the Sanskrit, an anonymous work on Inspiration, several works in Sanskrit, and many essays in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society and elsewhere.

The other writings he claims are two anonymous volumes of "Sermons concerning all the Saints" whose yearly feasts the church celebrates.

More weighty contributions are the anonymous theological discussion The Kernel and the Husk (1886), Philomythus (1891), his book on Cardinal Newman as an Anglican (1892), and his article "The Gospels" in the ninth edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, embodying a critical view which caused considerable stir in the English theological world; he also wrote St Thomas of Canterbury, his Death and Miracles (1898), Johannine V ocabulary (1905), Johannine Grammar (1906).

Those small critics who are always desirous to lower established reputations ran about proclaiming that the anonymous satirist was superior to Pope in Pope's own peculiar department of literature.

The Life of Savage was anonymous; but it was well known in literary circles that Johnson was the writer.

An excessively severe general condemnation was applied to all anonymous books published since 1519; and a list of sixty-two printers of heretical books was appended.

Many other short and anonymous works proceeded from his ever busy pen, but many are irrecoverable, and all are forgotten.

The feeling entertained by large numbers even of the educated class of Egyptians was strikingly illustrated by the terms of an anonymous letter received by Lord Cromer in May 1906.

The anonymous Ludus de Sancto Kanuto 3 (c. 1530) which in spite of its title, is written in Danish, is the earliest Danish national drama.

His mother, the Baroness Gyllembourg-Ehrensvard (q.v.; 1773-1856), wrote a large number of anonymous novels.

Their attribution to him is merely a matter of convenience, two of them being anonymous in the MSS.

The outstanding type is shown in such pieces as Holland's (q.v.) Buke of the Howlat, and in the anonymous poems Golagros and Gawane, The Awntyrs of Arthur at the Terne Wathelyne, Rauf Coil3ear and The Pistill of Susan.

Of greater antiquity is the concise account of his travels by an anonymous pilgrim, who, in A.D.

What we found in the case of the Irish raids, that at first they are quite anonymous, but that presently the names of the captains of the expeditions emerge, is likewise the case in all other lands.

The great annual festival which they had to conduct was held in honour of the anonymous Dea Dia, who was probably identical with Ceres.