Citations:dead-name

See also: Citations:deadname, Citations:dead name, and Citations:dead-naming

English citations of dead-name

to name the dead

• 2014, Stephen Knight, Secrets of Crime Fiction Classics: Detecting the Delights, page 195:

  Rebus himself makes his own naming of the dead, especially in his thoughts about his brother Michael, and Siobhan, listening to the dead-naming ceremony, feels this was what she did, her whole working life.