رَجَعَ الْمَنْصُورُ
The victorious one returned.
رَجَعَ الْمَهْزُومُ
The defeated one returned.
Even when the subject is known, al-manṣūr foregrounds victory and honour. In contrast, al-mahzūm may be chosen to stress defeat and belittlement. Explicit mention works through the evaluative noun the speaker selects.
The factual predicate “returned” remains the same, but the chosen description changes its rhetorical force. The effect depends not simply on mentioning a referent, but on how that referent is named.