praise name

noun

praise name

noun
1

A ceremonial name or title used by various African peoples.

  • Jacob Zuma will change all that hasn't been changed to make better the better life for all. Msholzi, his praise-name: one of them, the workers; Zuma, their own.2012, Nadine Gordimer, No Time Like the Present, Bloomsbury, published 2013, page 269:

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