Editing Sobriquet (section)

== Usage ==
Sobriquets are "a form of identification that goes beyond a traditional name and offers insight into a person’s character, appearance, profession, or any other distinguishing feature".<ref name="usage">{{cite web |last1=Manaher |first1=Shawn |title=How and When To Use "Sobriquet" |date=2023 |url=https://thecontentauthority.com/blog/how-to-use-sobriquet-in-a-sentence |website=The Content Authority |access-date=24 February 2024}}</ref> They are used in politics, music, literature and for royalty, celebrities, and athletes.<ref>{{cite web |title=Epithet: Definition and Examples {{!}} LiteraryTerms.net |url=https://literaryterms.net/epithet/ |website=Literary Terms |access-date=24 February 2024 |language=en |date=9 September 2015}}</ref>  

Candidates for public office and political figures may be described with sobriquets, while living or posthumously. For example, [[president of the United States]] [[Abraham Lincoln]] was called "Honest Abe".<ref>{{cite web |last1=Howe |first1=Daniel W |title=Honest Abe: Abraham Lincoln and the Moral Character |url=https://www.fpri.org/article/2008/06/honest-abe-abraham-lincoln-and-the-moral-character/ |website=www.fpri.org |publisher=Foreign Policy Research Institute |access-date=24 February 2024 |location=Philadelphia |date=1 June 2008 |quote=Lincoln won his nickname “Honest Abe” while practicing law in the circuit courts of Illinois during the 1850s. Colleagues ranked him “at the head of his profession in the state” in part because of their absolute confidence that he never told a lie.}}</ref> An affectionate contemporary sobriquet for [[Ulysses S. Grant]] was the "American Sphinx" as a man of deeds rather than for verbal self-promotion.<ref>{{cite web |title=Provenance of the Ulysses S. Grant Papers |url=https://www.loc.gov/collections/ulysses-s-grant-papers/articles-and-essays/provenance-of-the-ulysses-s-grant-papers/ |website=www.loc.gov |publisher=Library of Congress |access-date=24 February 2024 |location=Washington, D.C. |page=v |date=1965}}</ref>

Early uses of sobriquets in writing and literature include the [[Dead Sea Scrolls]]<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Fox |first1=Harry |title=A New Understanding of the Sobriquet דורשי החלקות: Why Qumranites Rejected Pharisaic Traditions |journal=Law, Literature, and Society in Legal Texts from Qumran |date=24 January 2019 |volume=128 |pages=65–66 |doi=10.1163/9789004393387_004 |url=https://brill.com/display/book/edcoll/9789004393387/BP000010.xml |access-date=24 February 2024 |series=Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah |publisher=Brill |location=Leuven, NL |isbn=978-90-04-39338-7 |language=en|url-access=subscription }}</ref> and in [[Tang dynasty|Tang]] and [[Song dynasty|Song (Southern Sung) dynasty]] poetry.<ref>{{cite book |author1=Pauline Yu |title=Voices of the Song Lyric in China |date=1994 |publisher=University of California Press |location=Berkeley |pages=84, 88 |url=https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft129003tp;brand=ucpress |access-date=24 February 2024 |language=en |format=Digital collection |chapter=Song Lyrics and the Canon: A Look at Anthologies of Tz'u}}</ref> Contemporary usage is common in the English and French languages.<ref name="CNRTLfr">{{cite web |title=SOBRIQUET : Définition de SOBRIQUET |url=https://www.cnrtl.fr/definition/sobriquet |website=www.cnrtl.fr |publisher=Centre National de Resources Textuelles et Lexicales (National Center for Textual and Lexical Resources) |access-date=24 February 2024 |location=Nancy, France |language=fr |date=2002}}</ref>