Death-name
noun
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Noun
- 1 A name that is given (usually by a priest) to refer to someone who has died so that the living can avoid using the actual name of the dead person.
"Indeed, those old insurgents, of 1868, are gradually being canonized with crimson death-names, because they neither knew dishonor, no, nor suffered it."
Example
More examples"Indeed, those old insurgents, of 1868, are gradually being canonized with crimson death-names, because they neither knew dishonor, no, nor suffered it."
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