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

The second day after his obsequy was done reverently, and on his body laid a tomb of stone and his banner hanging over him.

From Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) by Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, Raphael Holinshed

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

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

From Indian Summer by Howells, William Dean

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)