obsequy
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"Whether derided or praised," the historian Robert Rotberg has written, "he remains an object of calumny, obsequy and inquiry."
From BBC ● Apr. 1, 2015
Dye Apguylamys," who is told to prepare the obsequy for Love, and of "Lady Apylton," who had offered a "mass-penny," and the epitaph ends with these stanzas: "Now, Love, Love!
From Notes and Queries, Number 08, December 22, 1849 by Various
And "You knew Mr. Bowen was no longer living?" she said, with fit obsequy of tone.
From Indian Summer by Howells, William Dean
Thou wast not keen To insult in present of his corse, like these, The insensate general and his brother-king, Who came with proud intent to cast him forth Foully debarred from lawful obsequy.
From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles
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 Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)
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
That knowledge sits uncomfortably with what has come before, not because the leaden language of the scripted obsequies is persuasive, but because the grieving citizens are so real.
From New York Times ● May 6, 2021
Collective memory cannot be battered into adoring someone by official obsequies.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 10, 2013
The obsequies intended to raise the shade of the deceased to heaven are thus completed.
