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Honorific epithet used parenthetically to mark a beloved person as being deceased.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
A calque of Latin beatae memoriae, possibly a calque of Hebrew זיכרונו לברכה (zikhronó/á/ám/án livrakhá, “memory-of-him/her/them to blessing”), ז״ל (Z.L.).
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