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English
Etymology
Blend of death + anniversary.[1]
Noun
deathiversary (plural deathiversaries)
- (informal) The anniversary of someone's death.
2016 April 22, Jennifer Schuessler, “Shakespeare. Dead?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-06-21:If all the world's a stage, Shakespeare seems to be rarely off it these days, to the extent that some may be less tempted to celebrate his deathiversary than to say, "Him again, still?"
2017 August 24, Hank Stuever, “’Whitney: Can I Be Me’ tries and fails to bring meaning to the late singer’s legacy”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 April 2024:In the midst of TV's full brunt of Diana deathiversary specials, Showtime has decided that what one naturally wants instead is a dispassionate, depressing documentary about the downward spiral and untimely death of pop superstar Whitney Houston, who drowned in a hotel bathtub in 2012 (official cause: coronary artery disease, complicated by drug use), leaving many unanswerable questions: Who was she? What was her legacy? Where did it all go so wrong?
2019 [2017], Rodrigo Fresán, translated by Will Vanderhyden, The Dreamed Part, Rochester, N.Y.: Open Letter, →ISBN, page 478:Soon, he was only asked to offer remembrances on the successive unhappy deathiversaries of that film director/painter he referred to as The Living Dead Man […]
References
- ^ Paul McFedries (1996–2024) “deathiversary”, in Word Spy, Logophilia Limited.