Definition of "late lamented" []

• Sadly missed, due to death (adjective)

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• "As perhaps I told you, she is at present — poor child — employing herself as a species of professional daughter-cum-companion in the house of her great-aunt, a prodigious old Hecuba, widow of the late lamented Doctor Faraday, of ‘Gnats’ (circa 1880)."
• "Risen from among those who died at the destruction of the gateway to the Celestial Temple, that is, your late lamented Deep Space 9."
• "Plus, it was already half-full of hydrogen left over from the fuel for the late lamented Lujexer."