naming
/ˈneɪmɪŋ/ noun C2- The process of giving names to things. · The naming of the new stadium attracted considerable media attention.· The committee was responsible for the naming of streets and public buildings.
- A ritual or ceremony in which a person's name is given or announced.
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But when Diana was born there was a schoolmaster boarding there and they gave him the naming of her and he called her Diana.”
But where on earth is the sense of naming a geranium?”
In confirmation of this, she related the particulars of all the pecuniary transactions in which they had been connected, without actually naming her authority, but stating it to be such as might be relied on.
“Let me beg of you not to hesitate in naming your wishes; you will then be convinced that the resources of the house of Danglars, however limited, are still equal to meeting the largest demands; and were you even to require a million——”
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