Dead-naming

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An act of the instance of naming as the target of a death-curse, of killing by naming.

    "For quotations using this term, see Citations:dead-naming."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of dead-name form-of, gerund, participle, present

Example

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"For quotations using this term, see Citations:dead-naming."

Etymology

From dead + naming, 'naming as (soon to be) dead'. Attested since the early 1900s.

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