"death-name" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "death-names",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "death-name (plural death-names)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1906, John Luther Long, The Way of the Gods, page 25",
          "text": "Indeed, those old insurgents, of 1868, are gradually being canonized with crimson death-names, because they neither knew dishonor, no, nor suffered it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1968, Richard K. Beardsley, John W. Hall, Robert E. Ward, Village Japan, page 342",
          "text": "The priest at that time would give a death-name for the deceased, eventually to be inscribed on a stone monument.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1995, Omega: An International Journal for the Study of Dying",
          "text": "Most death-names are not actually names but titles, given to persons on the death of a close relative.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Alan R. Kemp, Death, Dying and Bereavement in a Changing World",
          "text": "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).",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "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."
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          "priest",
          "priest"
        ],
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          "died"
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    }
  ],
  "word": "death-name"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "death-names",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "death-name (plural death-names)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1906, John Luther Long, The Way of the Gods, page 25",
          "text": "Indeed, those old insurgents, of 1868, are gradually being canonized with crimson death-names, because they neither knew dishonor, no, nor suffered it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1968, Richard K. Beardsley, John W. Hall, Robert E. Ward, Village Japan, page 342",
          "text": "The priest at that time would give a death-name for the deceased, eventually to be inscribed on a stone monument.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1995, Omega: An International Journal for the Study of Dying",
          "text": "Most death-names are not actually names but titles, given to persons on the death of a close relative.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Alan R. Kemp, Death, Dying and Bereavement in a Changing World",
          "text": "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).",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "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."
      ],
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      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "death-name"
}