death-name

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Noun

death-name (plural death-names)

  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.
    • 1906, John Luther Long, The Way of the Gods, page 25:
      Indeed, those old insurgents, of 1868, are gradually being canonized with crimson death-names, because they neither knew dishonor, no, nor suffered it.
    • 1968, Richard K. Beardsley, John W. Hall, Robert E. Ward, Village Japan, page 342:
      The priest at that time would give a death-name for the deceased, eventually to be inscribed on a stone monument.
    • 1995, Omega: An International Journal for the Study of Dying:
      Most death-names are not actually names but titles, given to persons on the death of a close relative.
    • 2015, Alan R. Kemp, Death, Dying and Bereavement in a Changing World:
      Using death-names instead of usual names is their way to protect the feelings of the bereft (using the name of the dead might arouse sad feelings).
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