obsequy

"Whether derided or praised," the historian Robert Rotberg has written, "he remains an object of calumny, obsequy and inquiry."

From BBC ● Apr. 1, 2015

But more of that hereafter: take it hence And let the ladyes guarde it tyll it be Interrd with publique sollempe obsequy.

From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 3 by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen

If a tear escape her eye 'Tis not for my memory But thy rights of obsequy.

From The Mad Lover The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher (3 of 10) by Francis Beaumont

And "You knew Mr. Bowen was no longer living?" she said, with fit obsequy of tone.

From Indian Summer by William Dean Howells

I was glad when it was over; our own simple service, read by the merest layman, would surely have been a more fitting obsequy.

From Border and Bastille by George A. (George Alfred) Lawrence

I don’t want to add here to the emotional obsequies being written for the Washington Post, after its latest round of contraction last week.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 9, 2026

The diplomatic focus will be on the part of St Peter's Square where presidents and prime ministers, princes and monarchs will sit waiting for the obsequies to begin.

From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2025

Collective memory cannot be battered into adoring someone by official obsequies.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 10, 2013

In his radio interview, Mr. Medinsky pledged to make it an occasion to remember and to observe all the obsequies.

From New York Times ● Jul. 21, 2012

When the obsequies were finished, the Estates assembled to deliberate who should now possess the vacant throne.

From Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter by Thomas Carlyle