Citations:dead-name

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English citations of dead-name

to name the dead

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  • 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.