Definition of "mononom"
mononom
noun
plural mononoms
Quotations
"I was dining one day with Burns," said Campbell, "who, like Dr. Johnson and other celebrities, had his Bozzy worshipper, a friend who was always in his company. I have forgotten his name. Burns left the room for a moment, and passing the bottle to his friend, I proposed to drink the health of Mr. Burns. He gave me a look of annihilation. 'Sir,' said he, you will always be known as Mr. Campbell, but posterity will talk of Burns!'" Such an anecdote makes one look around in alarm, to see if there are not some unrecognised mononoms in our time, whom we are profaning, unaware, with our Mister-y.
1852, Nathaniel Parker Willis, The Prose Works of N.P. Willis, page 661