Glad you asked: namesake properly describes the receiver of a shared name, not the giver.
(The opposite problem often occurs with "namesake". That word properly describes the receiver of the name — a grandchild may be the namesake of her grandmother, but not the other way around).
True permanent press — the term properly describes cloth that is a blend of cotton and synthetic fibers — was invented in the mid-20th century, but for textile makers, a no-iron, 100-percent cotton fabric was a long-sought grail.
Borrowing a term that properly describes an Eastern European absolute monarch is a cheap and easy way to lend the apperance of muscle and grit to the comparatively flabby politics usually practised in democracies.
(Again, as the activists see it; some groups, like the French section of Doctors Without Borders, which has been on the ground in the region for many years, deny that genocide properly describes the situation).
After the chef and his kitchen crew create the dishes, a half-dozen staff members gather for taste tests, rate the presentation and make sure the menu properly describes the dishes.
Yep, that properly describes the TouchPad: a beautiful dead-end.
This analytical model properly describes our structural intuition.
He suspects the perspective taken in the new Nature Climate Change paper properly describes the long-term outcome.
He calls it a VC without ego, and after talking to Triest over the past few weeks, that mantra also properly describes him.
An "ice cap" is much smaller than an "ice sheet", a term that more properly describes the huge frozen masses covering Greenland and Antarctica.
