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
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
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
Live all and love together, and thereby You give your father a rich obsequy.
From Sir Thomas More by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)
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
Hardly were the splendid obsequies of San Piero completed when his place was occupied by Guido da Sesto and Rainerio Saccone da Vicenza.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Henry Charles Lea
