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epitaph

noun as in inscription on a gravestone

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When he ended Vieux Carré with the stage direction, “The house is empty now,” Lahr somberly terms it “an augury and an epitaph.”

In the unlikely event McConnell loses his reelection bid, I already know the title for his political epitaph: Shameless.

Weil believes they are a fitting epitaph to a man often described as the most influential British publisher of his generation.

So he entitled one of his earlier books, thus already authoring his own epitaph.

A stone mason was employed to engrave the following epitaph on a tradesman's wife: "A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband."

Here—stop and look—is the epitaph of one, a considerable fellow in his day, a barrister of the Middle Temple.

He was sumptuously buried in Kensal Green, where a marble pedestal carries his portrait and his epitaph.

The following epitaph given by Maitland commemorates a martyrdom of this reign.

While digging here in 1856, De Rossi found the important epitaph of Eusebius before given.

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On this page you'll find 15 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to epitaph, such as: elegy, eulogy, commemoration, epigraph, legend, and memorial.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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