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

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

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

From this session interdict Every fowl of tyrant wing, Save the eagle, feather'd king: Keep the obsequy so strict.

From The Phoenix and the Turtle by William Shakespeare

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

What Levin has written is a diverting meta-thriller implying he is delivering the final obsequies over a once-flourishing but exhausted genre.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 8, 2010

Rev. Father Quinn of St. James' Roman Catholic church, conducted the obsequies for Edward Mansfield and Margaret Louise Dee, the children of William Dee, at the residence, 3133 Wabash avenue.

From Chicago's Awful Theater Horror by Various